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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit19 min
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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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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Time to First Token: The Metric That Will Define Our Era | Nscale, VAST Data & NVIDIA | RAISE 2026
Kristin Zwez, Jeff Denworth, Rod Evans, Christine
Jensen Huang and Vast Data redefine AI infrastructure economics by shifting the primary metric from hardware utilization to Time to First Token, ensuring that billions in capital investments for massive GPU clusters yield immediate ROI. This evolution integrates storage directly into the core computer to maximize inference speed while driving a business model transition from hourly compute sales to token-as-a-service. Consequently, enterprises are advised to abandon legacy IT stacks in favor of fully integrated data computers and to prioritize executive ownership of AI adoption to avoid costly silos and ensure rigorous bottom-line execution.
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Funding the AI Supercycle: IPOs, Liquidity & Growth | Nelson Griggs, Nasdaq | RAISE Summit 2026
Driven by a resurgence in IPO diversity and massive capital needs for AI infrastructure, the public market is experiencing its most active pipeline in over 25 years, highlighted by SpaceX's historic entry into the NASDAQ 100. Valuation benchmarks have shifted toward profitability and significant revenue scales, prompting a strategic pivot from "growth at all costs" to sustainable models while European tech firms increasingly bypass local exchanges for higher U.S. liquidity. Regulatory adjustments, such as NASDAQ's "fast entry" rules, are accelerating listings for mature mega-caps, setting the stage for a robust flow of billion-dollar offerings through 2026.
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ALL-IN Podcast Live: Mati Staniszewski, Co-Founder & CEO of ElevenLabs | RAISE Summit 2026
Mati Staniszewski, Jason Calacanis
ElevenLabs has scaled to $600 million in annual recurring revenue with 600 employees while maintaining a 100% retention rate for its original research team. The company differentiates itself through an AI-optimized organizational structure, proprietary IP safeguards that have returned over $22 million to creators, and strategic partnerships with figures like Matthew McConaughey. Looking ahead, CEO Mati Golan aims to achieve a voice Turing test by year-end, leveraging assistive technology for medical patients and a model-agnostic platform to remain independent of larger AI developers.
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ALL-IN Podcast Live: Pat Gelsinger, Partner at Playground Global | RAISE Summit 2026
Pat Gelsinger, Jason Calacanis
Intel's strategic decline is attributed to a shift from technical to financial leadership that prioritized shareholder returns over R&D, resulting in missed fabrication opportunities and the loss of key markets like Apple and NVIDIA. In response, CEO Pat Gelsinger is driving a foundry pivot and onshoring initiatives under the CHIPS Act to rebuild manufacturing capacity while navigating geopolitical risks centered on Taiwan's vulnerability. Concurrently, the broader semiconductor landscape is expected to mature through a multi-decade AI expansion constrained by energy limits, alongside anticipated quantum computing breakthroughs by 2030 that will redefine computational capabilities.
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RAISE Summit Opening: A Fireside with Mark Cuban & Anton Osika, Lovable | RAISE Summit 2026
Lovable enables founders, small businesses, and enterprise teams to generate over one million projects weekly by translating plain English descriptions into fully hosted, secure, and monetizable software solutions. The platform has driven significant cost savings, such as a million dollars annually for the healthcare staffing firm Nursa, while empowering non-technical users to act as "AI co-founders" by automating setup tasks like global payments and data governance. Looking ahead, Lovable aims to evolve from a code generation tool into a strategic business advisor that leverages agentic workflows to optimize customer acquisition and internal operations without requiring traditional engineering resources.
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State of AI Infrastructure: What's Powering AI Today | IREN, Mirantis & NVIDIA | RAISE Summit 2026
Kent Draper, Alex Freedland, Dion Harris, Henri Delahaye
Industry leaders from Iron, NVIDIA, and Mirantis convened to address the critical bottleneck of energy and physical infrastructure limiting the global AI race. The panel outlined a strategic shift toward vertical integration and open standards, exemplified by Iron's European expansion for sovereign AI and NVIDIA's launch of an API-centric ecosystem to streamline compute consumption. Success in this sector now hinges on synchronizing rapid software orchestration with the slower deployment of power grids and data centers to bridge the widening supply-demand gap.
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Creativity in the Age of AI | NYSE, Canva & Anthropic | RAISE Summit 2026
Michael Harris, Duncan Clark, Guillaume Princen
Canva executives and Anthropic leaders outlined a strategic convergence where AI acts as a workforce amplification tool rather than a replacement, evidenced by Canva's internal hackathons and Anthropic's enterprise focus on data trust. Their collaboration highlights a shift toward agentic capabilities by 2026, enabling automated workflows like the new Affinity Pro integration and scaled design customization for global marketing teams. The discussion forecasts that ecosystem connectivity and context will drive a 2027 milestone where AI surpasses top human expert performance, fundamentally compressing industry progress timelines.
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ALL-IN Podcast Live: Mark Cuban | RAISE Summit 2026
Mark Cuban attributes recent NBA parity shifts to new salary cap rules that prevent three-peats while analyzing Jalen Brunson's franchise-driven move to the New York Knicks. He warns of an artificial AI valuation bubble fueled by private capital and warns that without breakthroughs in energy efficiency, massive data center investments risk becoming stranded assets. Concurrently, Cuban argues that AI will augment rather than replace white-collar workers, citing immediate benefits for entrepreneurs in prototyping and potential transformations in precision healthcare through integrated wearable data.
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Who Controls AI? The Open Source Imperative | Arthur Mensch, Mistral AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Arthur Mensch, Mark Surman, Henri Delahaye
Speakers Arthur and Marc outline a strategic framework for artificial intelligence sovereignty that prioritizes domestic compute security, affordability, and sustainability to mitigate economic inequality and social unrest. They identify open source technology as a critical mechanism for nations to retain control over essential infrastructure, preventing foreign dependency while fostering a global ecosystem where open components serve as the dominant building blocks within the next decade. Although this shift from proprietary chatbots to shared infrastructure is widely anticipated, the speakers warn that realizing this future requires sustained research funding and coordinated interoperability to overcome significant capital and partnership challenges.