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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit21 min
Building Global out of Europe in the AI Era | Jan Oberhauser, n8n | RAISE Summit 2026
N8N positions itself as an open-source AI workflow orchestration layer that connects diverse models and applications, a strategy validated by adoption from major enterprises like Microsoft, SAP, and the German government. By prioritizing model agnosticism and a "fair code" license, the platform enables organizations to maintain data sovereignty and switch providers to optimize costs and mitigate supply chain risks. Supported by a global network of partners and community ambassadors, N8N continues to expand its enterprise footprint by evolving from a tool for technical builders into an accessible infrastructure for non-technical users to deploy robust, ROI-driven AI solutions.
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The Foundation Model Revolution for Structured Data | Frank Hutter, Prior Labs | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded 18 months ago by Frank Hutter, Souraj Gambier, and Noah, Prior Labs has developed TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that processes structured enterprise data in seconds without retraining. The company achieved state-of-the-art performance on the TabArena leaderboard and delivered measurable results for major clients like Hitachi and Credit Agricole before signing a definitive acquisition agreement with SAP. Under this deal, SAP will invest over €1 billion to scale Prior Labs as an independent European sovereign AI hub while preserving its open-source models and research leadership.
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Scaling Global AI Infrastructure | Kevin Cochrane, Vultr | RAISE Summit 2026
Vulture's representative, a recent ultra-running record holder, announced the "Vulture AI Factory," a unified infrastructure stack launching with SUSE to support sovereign cloud operations and decouple GPU inference from CPU orchestration. The speaker outlined a new 30-year "super cycle" of compute innovation while revealing open-source breakthroughs like the Voltron Retriever model and new integrations with NVIDIA, AMD, Dell, and NetApp. Highlighting enterprise adoption through a Marriott International use case and recent hackathon victories in clinical trials and telco operations, the event emphasized a strategic shift toward decentralized, agentic AI architectures.
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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 Fireside: Ramin Hasani, Liquid AI & Ion Stoica, Arena | RAISE Summit 2026
Ramin Hasani, Ion Stoica, Rachel Metz, Ayaan, Ian
Led by MIT-derived algorithms and advised by Databricks co-founder Ian, Liquid AI is deploying energy-efficient, hardware-agnostic foundation models designed to run locally on consumer-grade chips rather than massive data centers. This approach addresses a shifting market where enterprises prioritize security and regulatory control by replacing expensive, closed-source systems with open-weight alternatives that offer near-parity in performance for specific tasks like coding and office work. The discussion further highlights a strategic pivot toward specialized "cities" of smaller, deterministic models that interact within agentic pipelines to ensure reliable, human-liability-backed deployment across industries.
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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.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
US Midyear Outlook: Geopolitical Shocks, the New Fed Era, and Growth
Recent U.S. economic data reveals unexpectedly resilient job growth and stickier inflation stabilizing near 3%, driven by geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and AI-related price measurement distortions. Goldman Sachs forecasts core PCE inflation to settle around 2.1% with real GDP growth of 2%, prompting expectations that the Federal Reserve will maintain current interest rates through July while shifting its policy stance toward neutralizing inflation regardless of its source. Despite market speculation regarding rate hikes, the primary economic risk remains a potential escalation of the Middle East conflict that could trigger sustained price increases and destabilize financial markets.
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90% of AI tokens will be asynchronous | Matan Grinberg, Factory
The event outlines a critical shift in AI consumption from fragile, prompt-dependent synchronous models to robust asynchronous workflows where autonomous agents initiate tasks without human triggers. Industry forecasts predict that within 12 to 24 months, 90% of tokens will be generated by these autonomous systems, marking the transition from current "co-pilot" tools to fully "agent-native" operations. This evolution promises to decouple revenue growth from active human intervention by enabling systems to independently identify customer signals and execute first-pass solutions.
- All-In Podcast42 min
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
Mark Cuban, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg
The current AI investment landscape is characterized by a distinct bubble where capital concentrated in private markets creates vulnerability for venture funds and data center overbuilding rather than systemic public risk. While enterprise adoption faces hurdles in autonomy and regulatory M&A restrictions, the sector is evolving toward world models and robotics, with startups leveraging reduced prototyping costs and geographic shifts to Texas and Florida to bypass coastal regulations. Simultaneously, political narratives are being reshaped by AI's potential to favor factual accuracy over engagement, even as diverse industries from healthcare to sports adapt by utilizing AI for data aggregation and shifting valuation metrics toward digital reach.