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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit23 min
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.
- RAISE Summit17 min
A fireside Chat with Ramin Hasani, Co-Founder & CEO of Liquid AI ft. Robert Cahill (Enhance Venture)
Liquid AI, an MIT spin-off founded by Ramin Hassani, is deploying a unique full-stack foundation model platform that utilizes biologically inspired Liquid Neural Networks to run generative AI directly on edge devices. This architecture achieves linear scaling rather than the quadratic costs of standard Transformers, enabling powerful on-device intelligence in resource-constrained hardware like smartphones and satellites without relying on data centers. Positioned as a specialized "gatekeeper" alongside massive cloud-based Oracles, the Boston-based company targets a projected $1 trillion on-device AI market by 2035 with applications spanning consumer electronics, automotive, and aerospace sectors.
- RAISE Summit20 min
SQORUS & Oracle: How AI is transforming step by step our industries. Use cases by ONET
Cyril Grira, Geoffrey, Gaurit Champenois, Romain Guyettremotier
Oracle, Skorus, and ONET Airport Services unveiled a comprehensive digital transformation at a 40th-anniversary celebration that leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to reduce annual baggage losses by 25%. Led by Cyril Grira of Oracle, Geoffrey of Skorus, and ONET CIO Guillaume de Montessu, the project utilizes Autonomous Database 23ai, AI-powered vision services, and generative AI to shift operations from rigid timing-based SLAs to value-driven, real-time decision-making. Future initiatives plan to advance this system toward autonomous mission assignment and augmented reality interfaces to further optimize ground service productivity across Charles de Gaulle and other major hubs.
- RAISE Summit37 min
Fractile AI, Rogo, Scribble VC, San Francisco Compute: The AI Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Eric Manisse, Elizabeth Weill, Walter Goodwin, John Willett
San Francisco Compute CEO Eric Manisse, Scribble Ventures' Elizabeth Weill, and founders Walter Goodwin and John Willett convened to analyze strategies for scaling AI infrastructure, hardware, and enterprise solutions amidst rapid technological evolution. The panel detailed critical operational frameworks, including balancing hardware development timelines with software agility, mitigating hallucination risks in financial applications, and proactively shaping export control regulations rather than merely complying with them. Experts concluded that long-term success in this sector relies on specialized human expertise for deep tech, the creation of durable data moats, and a shift toward treating global compute as a utility to drive the next industrial revolution.
- RAISE Summit21 min
Fireside Chat with George Robson, Partner @ Sequoia & Felix Blossier, Co-Founder & COO @ Pennylane
Penny Lane, founded by seven entrepreneurs after the Price Match acquisition, transitioned from a service-led hybrid model to a pure software platform designed to empower SMB accountants through AI-driven co-pilot tools rather than automation. The company navigates the complex regulatory landscapes of Continental Europe, particularly France and Germany, by leveraging a business rule management system that allows non-engineers to manage compliance updates without code changes. With a recruitment strategy prioritizing curiosity and domain expertise over experience, Penny Lane aims to scale its all-in-one bookkeeping and tax solution across Europe despite the severe scarcity of local accounting talent.
- RAISE Summit20 min
A Fireside Chat with Luc Julia, Renault & Matthieu de Chanville, Shift for Good
Luc Julia, Matthieu de Chanville
Luc Beaulieu, Renault's Chief Scientific Officer, highlights the critical lag between century-old automakers and agile startups regarding AI adoption, noting that legacy software cycles remain incompatible with the rapid hardware refresh rates required for software-defined vehicles. While dismissing the feasibility of Level 5 autonomy and humanoids, Beaulieu champions specialized "physical AI," geo-fenced Level 4 robot taxis, and virtual sensor technologies to enhance manufacturing efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. These insights are further reinforced by the "Software Republic" consortium, which includes Renault and Thales, as it advances a vision where artificial intelligence serves as a specialized tool to augment human capability rather than replace it.
- RAISE Summit18 min
An AI conversation with Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack OverFlow
Prashanth Chandrasekar, Henry Shi, Prashant
Stack Overflow has pivoted from a traditional Q&A hub into a revenue-generating knowledge intelligence layer by licensing its data to major AI providers like Google and Microsoft while launching enterprise solutions for corporate workflows. This strategic shift addresses a 64% year-over-year traffic decline caused by user migration to AI search, transforming trust deficits among senior developers into a premium verification service rather than a code-generation competitor. Despite risks to junior developer roles, the company remains profitable and is expanding its talent pipeline through certification challenges and asynchronous human-to-human chat features.
- RAISE Summit18 min
Eric Piscini (Hashgraph) & Jonathan Dotan (EQTY Lab): Proof of Trust Rethinking AI ft. DLTBlockchain
Equity Lab and its partner Hedera are deploying a hardware-rooted system that leverages next-generation Intel and NVIDIA secure enclaves to generate tamper-proof certificates for AI agents, addressing the critical trust barrier identified by business leaders. This architecture delivers a 400,000x performance improvement in cryptographic proof generation while recording immutable audit trails on the Hedera blockchain to ensure compliance with global regulations like GDPR. Following a successful pilot with 11 Accenture agents, the technology positions itself as an essential infrastructure for the projected trillions of autonomous agents expected to dominate future web traffic and enterprise supply chains.
- RAISE Summit34 min
Ori, PolyAI, Cresta, Writer & Fireworks AI: Is Enterprise Defensibility Possible in an AI's World?
Mike Butcher, May Habib, Russell Banzon, Nicola, Lynn, Amalia, Mahdi
Industry leaders convened to declare that traditional SaaS and seat-based pricing models are collapsing as enterprises pivot to agentic AI, where value is derived from direct outcomes and autonomous revenue generation rather than software access. The consensus emphasizes that architectural advantages are temporary, with true defensibility emerging only through proprietary data flywheels and comprehensive organizational adoption strategies that integrate AI into core workflows. Looking toward 2025, the panel predicts a surge in production-level deployments driven by a tenfold reduction in infrastructure costs, forcing companies to prioritize offensive scaling over defensive postures to survive rapid market disruption.
- RAISE Summit29 min
Anjney Midha of a16z: Algorithmic Independence The Next Frontier in National Infrastructure
The event defines Sovereign AI as a four-tiered strategy for achieving technical and cultural independence, utilizing methods like mid-training to correct deep-seated biases rather than simple fine-tuning. As nations transition from closed-source prototypes to open-source models, a geopolitical divide is emerging where "hypercenters" like the US and China face competition from Europe's "Mistral Compute" initiative while non-hypercent nations adopt joint-venture models to retain value. The discussion concludes with predictions that general-purpose robotics and universal computer use will mature within two years, leveraging Europe's specific strengths in computer vision to secure its strategic position in the global AI landscape.
- RAISE Summit35 min
AI Visionaries Panel: Collaboration is All You Need! Open Source as AI's Great Accelerator
Olivier, Ankit, Matt, Mitchell, Jim, Jonathan
Leaders from Nvidia, Red Hat, Mozilla, and the Linux Foundation convened to analyze the symbiotic relationship between AI-driven investment strategies and the accelerating open-source ecosystem. The panel emphasized that while artificial intelligence boosts code velocity, the primary value in commercial open source now lies in community coordination and neutral standards that prevent market fragmentation. Key outcomes included the identification of a "reverse venture capital" approach for selecting durable projects and a consensus that human oversight remains critical for navigating the legal and architectural challenges of AGI development.
- RAISE Summit18 min
Aurélien Rodriguez, Director at Cohere: Building AI for Security-Minded Enterprises
In this session, a former Meta AI researcher now directing foundation model training at Cohere explains how the company prioritizes secure, grounded generation over pursuing Artificial General Intelligence. The discussion highlights a strategic shift toward on-premise deployment and retrieval-augmented pipelines that ensure data remains within client environments while minimizing hallucinations through strict source verification. By leveraging co-development partnerships with entities like Fujitsu and RBC, the organization focuses on specialized, high-value tools that deliver concrete business impact in regulated sectors without mimicking human biology.
- RAISE Summit34 min
Bruno Gagliardo, Global Head of Data & AI @ Sanofi : Molecule to Market, Driving AI Transformation
Bruno Gagliardo, Larry Orimoloe
Sanofi CEO Bruno Gagliardo unveiled a five-year strategy to transform the pharmaceutical giant into a "pharma tech" leader by migrating 85,000 employees to a cloud-based data mesh architecture powered by large-scale AI. The initiative integrates the RAISE governance framework and a $100 million impact barrier to mitigate hallucination risks while accelerating drug discovery and regulatory submissions from 19 weeks down to five. This cultural shift prioritizes AI augmentation over replacement, utilizing agentic systems and a hybrid build-or-buy approach to deliver substantial efficiency gains across research, manufacturing, and commercial operations.
- All-In Podcast27 min
Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
Joe Tsai, Caitlin Clark, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg
Business leader Joe Satt outlines Alibaba's strategic pivot toward AI-driven efficiency, highlighting a 14.5% stock surge following the Qwen 2.5 Max launch and a corporate culture where 30% of engineering code is now AI-generated. He contrasts U.S. and Chinese market dynamics by discussing the WNBA's surge in popularity driven by Caitlin Clark while arguing that U.S.-China relations represent necessary economic competition rather than bitter rivalry, noting China's 50% corporate AI adoption rate. Satt further critiques structural differences in American versus Chinese education and governance, asserting that the future of technological progress relies on cooperation in fields like medicine rather than a zero-sum race for dominance.
- RAISE Summit22 min
WEKA, Cohere, Nebius: Rewriting the Rules Agentic AI and the Race to Scale
Lauren Vaccarello, Cécile Robert-Michon, Dan Shtan, VYACHESLAV TYKHONOVSKYI, DAN GALPIN, Danila
At a panel on AI infrastructure and economics, Weka CMO Lauren Vaccarello, Cohere's Cécile Robert-Michon, and Nabeus CTO Dan Galpin discussed the necessity of rethinking legacy systems to support massive scale and agentic AI. The speakers emphasized that modern requirements prioritize intelligence per token over raw cost efficiency, citing Nabeus's software-first approach that achieves near-NVIDIA benchmark performance without virtualization and Cohere's converged storage solutions that deliver 20x faster checkpointing. They concluded that enterprises must abandon rigid long-term planning in favor of short-cycle agility to navigate the rapidly shifting demands of privacy, security, and compute resources in a commercial AI landscape.