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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit19 min
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.
- 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.
- 80,000 Hours1h 6m
What AI insiders say off the record | Jasmine Sun
Jasmine Sun, Zershaaneh Qureshi
A consensus among AI researchers predicts mass displacement of knowledge workers and the emergence of a permanent underclass, driving a critical brain drain where top talent concentrates in a few frontier labs to secure equity. This technological determinism is reinforced by a polarized ecosystem where safety concerns are weaponized as political slurs while a diverse coalition of "AI populists" organizes against corporate power without traditional unions to mediate the transition. Consequently, policy efforts face a high demand for action but a shortage of solutions, with success hinging on addressing public distrust rooted in inequality and building cross-issue coalitions with newly activated labor and environmental advocates.
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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.
- RAISE Summit24 min
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.