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The Real Edge in Production AI | Retainna Lin, Bitdeer AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Leading AI firms are pivoting from renting cloud resources to constructing proprietary infrastructure to secure economic viability and control the critical "cost per outcome." This strategy addresses the financial leakage inherent in fragmented multi-vendor stacks by prioritizing ownership of power, land, and compute to ensure accountability across the entire value chain. Bitdeer exemplifies this approach as an NVIDIA preferred partner offering a fully integrated solution from secure facilities to serverless AI agents, enabling enterprises to maximize gross margins in a market where success depends on optimizing P&L rather than simply accumulating hardware.
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Ship the Next: Agentic Cloud for AI Innovation | Alibaba Cloud | RAISE Summit 2026
Alibaba Cloud unveiled its Qwen 3.7 series and comprehensive "Qwen Cloud" ecosystem, integrating over 80 models into a scalable infrastructure capable of supporting 10,000 isolated agent sandboxes per minute. This launch is paired with significant productivity tools like Coder Work, which has attracted 10,000 organizations through spec-driven development, while the company advances its hardware strategy by designing custom GPUs and expanding global data center capacity. By offering predictive billing and memory-optimized hibernation for agents, the strategy aims to cut hosting costs by 70% and prepare enterprises for future agent-to-human operational ratios of 80:1.
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Anish Agarwal, Traversal: Production Software Keeps Breaking, and It Will Only Get Worse
Founded by MIT PhDs and Citadel alumni, Traversal employs causal machine learning, advanced reasoning models, and agent swarms to automate root cause analysis for large enterprises overwhelmed by AI-generated code complexity. The platform processes petabyte-scale telemetry to distinguish symptoms from causes, delivering proven results such as a 38% reduction in resolution time for DigitalOcean and sub-five-minute identification for a major financial firm. By converging on solutions through agentic MapReduce rather than traditional AIOps, the company aims to automate the full software reliability lifecycle while addressing the growing maintenance burden in modern development workflows.
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Shaun O’Meara, CTO @ Mirantis: All Infrastructure is AI Infrastructure
Addressing critical constraints such as GPU scarcity and the need for unified management of hybrid AI and legacy workloads, Mirantis launched Cordant as an open-source platform designed to deliver composable, multi-cloud infrastructure. The solution utilizes a declarative, pattern-based approach to enable performance contracting and seamless resource orchestration across edge, on-prem, and bare-metal environments. By overlaying open-source management on strategic vendor hardware, the platform aims to eliminate single-vendor lock-in while providing an "AI Factory" reference architecture for accelerated deployment.
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Oege De Moor (XBOW) & Apoorv Agrawal (Altimeter): Hackers with GPUs Offensive Security in the AI Era
Oege De Moor, Apoorv Agrawal, Uhey Dhimur
Altimeter Capital-backed startup Expo has deployed an autonomous AI agent that ranks as the world's top ethical hacker, identifying over 1,200 vulnerabilities including critical zero-days in enterprise giants like Palo Alto Networks and Salesforce within a single week. This superhuman capability forces a strategic industry shift toward AI-driven defense to combat a "skill shortage" in malicious actors that has enabled nation-states to automate attacks with unprecedented speed. While the market anticipates a major cyber incident within twelve months due to rising AI-generated code risks, human security roles are expected to evolve from technical execution to the strategic orchestration of these autonomous systems.