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How Data Became the Most Indispensable Resource for AI | Or Lenchner, Bright Data | RAISE 2026
Bright Data re-architected its infrastructure to serve exploding demand for visual data in physical AI and robotics, successfully defending its operational model against major legal challenges involving Meta and X. The privately held company, which achieved a $300 million revenue run rate without external funding, distinguishes its Western outsourcing strategy from Chinese competitors' focus on internal data stack development. While navigating potential market corrections, Bright Data maintains a long-term outlook on the necessity of its data ecosystem for global AI training and continues to prioritize hyper-growth over an imminent IPO.
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Fireside Chat with Sid Sheth, Founder & CEO of d-Matrix | RAISE Summit 2026
D-Matrix, founded in 2019, has transitioned its SRAM-based Corsair accelerator into mass production while partnering with NVIDIA to deploy heterogeneous compute solutions for the inference-focused agentic era. Moving beyond current SRAM limitations, the company is developing a 3D stacked In-Memory Compute architecture scheduled for a 2027 tape-out, which aims to simultaneously optimize latency and throughput for high-interactivity workloads. This strategic trajectory envisions a market where specialized inference accelerators coexist with HBM-based GPUs, handling distinct layers of the AI pipeline from heavy pre-fill computations to memory-intensive decoding.
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Fireside Chat with Philip Johnston, Starcloud & Chetan Puttagunta, Benchmark | RAISE Summit 2026
Philip Johnston, Chetan Puttagunta
StarCloud is a Seattle-based company that has successfully launched StarCloud 1, proving that terrestrial-grade GPUs can perform high-power training and inference in space while overcoming thermal and radiation challenges. The firm plans to rapidly scale its operations through partnerships with SpaceX and other launch providers, targeting a gigawatt-scale constellation of 88,000 satellites by late 2028 to provide near-instant data processing for government, telecommunications, and lunar exploration clients. With a founding team split between aerospace and cloud engineering giants, StarCloud aims to bypass terrestrial energy permitting delays by establishing a fully vertical infrastructure capable of delivering up to 10 terawatts of compute capacity.
- The Economist6 min
The art of deception in modern war | The Economist
The event analyzes how modern deception strategies now target an adversary's intent rather than mere presence to neutralize overwhelming surveillance, drawing on historical precedents like D-Day alongside recent intelligence failures in Ukraine, Israel, and Russia. It further details how transparent battlespaces compel forces to deploy resource-intensive drone operations that paradoxically increase human density and logistical footprints, requiring teams of five and nearly two tons of equipment per unit. By forcing enemies to waste munitions on decoys, these tactics aim to degrade capabilities, though the summary notes their inherent vulnerability and limited operational endurance of roughly three days.
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Beyond the Helpdesk: AI Turning IT Into a Strategic Function | Serval | RAISE Summit 2026
Serval is an AI-native platform that completely rebuilds IT Service Management infrastructure to replace legacy systems like ServiceNow by integrating dual-agent architecture for full automation of enterprise workflows. Co-founded by Jake, the company has driven an 80% automation rate for major clients such as SeatGeek and Ramp, enabling thousands of IT staff to shift from support roles to building cross-functional solutions in marketing, legal, and HR. By treating AI as a core foundation rather than an add-on layer, Serval allows enterprises to eliminate support queues and rapidly reinvent their operational roadmaps every six months.
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Keynote by Sunghyun Park, CEO & Co-Founder of Rebellions | RAISE Summit 2026
Seoul-based Rebellion, led by CEO Sunghyun Park, is establishing itself as a mass-production alternative to NVIDIA by delivering air-cooled AI server racks that achieve three times lower capital expenditure and superior efficiency through a custom hybrid SRAM and HBM3e architecture. Backed by strategic investors including SK Hynix and Samsung Foundry, the company's full-stack platform currently processes 14 million daily API calls for mission-critical applications at SK Telecom while prioritizing native open-source software compatibility. By optimizing for tokens per second per watt per dollar, Rebellion aims to diversify the global supply chain with a heterogeneous compute solution that scales via modular chiplets for both inference and emerging AGI workloads.
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Keynote by Maor Shlomo, Founder & CEO of Base44 | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded 18 months ago as a one-person "vibe coding" platform, Base44 recently secured a Wix acquisition despite generating over $150 million in annual recurring revenue without external investment. The company achieved 50x growth by restructuring around "Teams of Ones," where individual contributors leverage AI agents to handle end-to-end operations without traditional management layers. This model prioritizes compounding ambitions by reinvesting 30% of time into custom tooling, enabling a single entity to execute hundreds of daily deployments and expansive product initiatives that outpace legacy organizational structures.
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Pat Gelsinger & Elad Raz: Where Chips Go After the GPU Era | RAISE Summit 2026
Next Silicon has pivoted from high-performance computing to artificial intelligence, deploying its Maverick accelerator which integrates custom RISC-V CPUs with data flow architecture to unify serial and parallel workloads in national laboratory environments. The company's four-generation development strategy emphasizes adaptable, software-driven designs that support evolving non-Transformer models while maintaining compatibility with legacy Fortran and modern CUDA ecosystems. Looking forward, Next Silicon anticipates a market shift toward 10,000x efficiency gains and 3D physical modeling, requiring unified memory spaces to handle continuously learning systems rather than the fragmented training and inference phases of current AI.
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AI and the Age of Compression | Scott Woody, Stripe | RAISE Summit 2026
AI-native companies achieving rapid revenue expansion are redefining business strategy by replacing traditional moats and long-term planning with continuous auto-cannibalization and parallel reinvention across all operational functions. To sustain this velocity, organizations employ compressed two-week planning cycles, internal product competition, and high-agency generalist teams paid premium rates to navigate inherent market volatility. This approach demands a fundamental shift where leaders, including founders and CFOs, personally manage granular unit economics and simultaneously execute multiple go-to-market models to adapt faster than competitors.
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The Infrastructure Powering Live AI | Decart x Bloomberg | RAISE Summit 2026
CART, a 100-person AI lab, leverages its proprietary DOS stack to generate world-class real-time video models capable of powering autonomous robots and live virtual try-ons for e-commerce partners like Amazon. The company's "Lucy" interface enables photorealistic interactions in live streams and shopping feeds, reportedly tripling sales volumes while streamers achieve seven-fold engagement increases. With a roadmap projecting significant breakthroughs in physical AI and software engineering within 18 to 24 months, CART deploys forward-deployed teams to customize these high-performance solutions for specific enterprise KPIs.
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Scaling Taste, Craft & Quality in the AI Era | Figma x Mistral | RAISE Summit 2026
At Figma Config 2024, Chief Design Officer Loredana Cosentino and CEO Dylan Field addressed an audience of over 10,000 to unveil AI-driven tools like Figma Agents while redefining the Chief Design Officer role as a bridge between business value and user experience. The event highlighted a critical industry shift where AI lowers barriers to entry for non-specialists yet fails to replicate human creative excellence, necessitating a collaborative convergence of designers and developers around shared prototyping standards. Leaders emphasized that while AI accelerates baseline output, achieving world-class innovation requires maintaining distinct human judgment to avoid cultural stagnation and push beyond historical data constraints.
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How Higgsfield Went From 0 to $500M Run Rate in 14 Months | Alex Mashrabov | RAISE Summit 2026
Alex Mashrabov, Antoine Blondeau
Alex, a former competitive programming prodigy and ex-Head of AI at Snapchat, founded Hicksfield in October 2023 to address the retention gaps of mobile-first AI tools by pivoting to an enterprise-focused model. The company recently exceeded a $500 million annual run rate within 15 months through its proprietary "Cinema Studio" platform, which serves creative agencies with specialized product photography models and rapid release cycles. Operating with a hybrid US and Kazakhstan talent structure, Hicksfield is currently driving market adoption by shifting the AI narrative from job replacement to direct revenue growth for small and mid-market brands.
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Your Agent Can't Fix What It Can't See | Milin Desai, Sentry | RAISE Summit 2026
Milin Desai, Karim Jalbout, Milo, Amil
Sentry leverages its global platform to serve over 200,000 software teams in addressing the exponential rise in coding complexity driven by AI agents and non-technical developers. The company champions a "self-healing" software paradigm where AI autonomously resolves 30% to 40% of production issues while managing costs through deterministic automation loops rather than raw token usage. This model-agnostic approach shifts the developer role from manual coding to system design, aiming to democratize rapid error resolution for organizations ranging from startups to billion-user enterprises.
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Opening Address by Anne Le Hénanff, French Minister-Delegate for AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Hosted by the French government to position Paris as a global center for sovereign and human-centered AI, the RAISE Summit builds on a three-billion-euro national strategy and Softbank's potential 75-billion-euro investment to accelerate sector-specific breakthroughs. The event highlights the nation's deployment of 600 AI ambassadors, 63 designated data center sites, and a regulatory framework designed to foster a thriving ecosystem that now hosts over 2,000 startups and 50,000 jobs. By leveraging decarbonized energy and initiatives like the Auxilia plan, France aims to drive widespread AI adoption among SMEs while ensuring digital sovereignty without isolationism.
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The Golden Age of Software Engineering | Scott Wu, Cognition | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded two and a half years ago, global firm Cognition leverages its autonomous AI agent, Devin, to generate 90% of committed code while scaling engineering output tenfold with only a 40% headcount increase. By closing the full software development lifecycle autonomously, the company enables asynchronous, event-driven workflows that effectively add 130 engineers to every 1,000-person team through a 10:1 human-to-AI ratio. This shift toward outcome-based delivery signals the imminent "Golden Age of Software Engineering," where the primary constraint moves from labor availability to identifying complex problems worth solving.