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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit8 min
Mike Mattacola, Coreweave ｜ Raise Summit 2025
Held in Paris, the RAISE Summit 2025 convened industry leaders to address the critical intersections of AI infrastructure expansion, sovereignty, and energy constraints. CoreWeave leveraged its strategic partnership with Dell and NVIDIA to outpace competitors by deploying H100, H200, and GB200 hardware generations first, while managing massive scaling complexities through joint troubleshooting and agile operational models. The event highlighted a structural industry shift from general-purpose IT to specialized AI engineering, characterized by high-density rack consolidation and a dramatic decline in x86 market share as physical data center requirements drive immediate procurement and deployment strategies.
- RAISE Summit10 min
Alison Wagonfeld, Google Cloud ｜ RAISE Summit 2025
Alison Wagonfeld, John Furrier
At the 2025 RAISE Summit in Paris, Google Cloud detailed its transition to a full-stack AI-first strategy that integrates DeepMind research directly into products like BigQuery while leveraging partners such as Databricks and hardware collaborations with Nvidia. The company championed open interoperability standards, specifically the Model Context Protocol and Agent-to-Agent protocol, to enable secure cross-platform agent interactions and mitigate vendor lock-in for over 500 enterprise customers. This approach addresses a market shift toward replatformization and internal AI competency centers, allowing organizations to extract measurable ROI through application-layer business logic rather than focusing solely on hardware advancements.
- RAISE Summit18 min
Benoit Dageville, Snowflake ｜ RAISE Summit 2025
Benoit Dageville, John Furrier
Snowflake has advanced its platform by establishing unstructured data as a first-class citizen through new AI SQL capabilities and the official launch of Semantic Views, which embed business logic to ensure AI query accuracy exceeds 95%. This evolution supports a three-phase integration of generative AI, ranging from data ingestion and natural language interaction to a future agentic layer that democratizes access for non-technical users while maintaining strict governance via a dual proprietary and open-source cataloging strategy. By distinguishing itself through a dedicated semantic layer and objective performance benchmarks, the company positions this shift as a foundational revolution that simplifies complex data relationships for enterprises without compromising security or cost efficiency.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Rajiv Ramaswami, Nutanix ｜ RAISE Summit 2025
At the RAISE Summit 2025 in Paris, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswamy unveiled a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to deliver a fully integrated enterprise AI infrastructure stack designed to support generative AI inference for the 28,000 companies Nutanix currently serves. This solution combines Nutanix's simplified base with NVIDIA's microservices and reference architectures to enable secure, turnkey deployment of AI workloads across data centers, edge locations, and public clouds. By abstracting hardware and containerization complexity, the collaboration targets the "vast majority" of enterprises that will consume rather than train models, facilitating immediate use cases like document summarization and automated translation while supporting future multi-agent workflows.
- RAISE Summit12 min
Paul Bloch, DDN ｜ RAISE Summit 2025
DDN, a self-funded startup transitioning from high-performance computing to AI infrastructure, has solidified its position as a critical partner for NVIDIA and XAI by deploying storage solutions capable of scaling from single GPUs to over one million. The company recently launched its Infinia data ocean platform to support massive foundation model training and low-latency inference, capitalizing on the emerging sovereign AI trend where nations integrate government and infrastructure into unified national data platforms. Despite intense market competition, DDN leverages its deep Caltech R&D roots and founder-led culture to retain customers who require the extreme scale and performance necessary for next-generation AI workloads.
- The Economist13 min
Has science finally cracked the secret to invisibility?
Alok Jha, Professor Sir John Pendry, John Pendry
Physics professor John Pendry introduced metamaterials as geometrically engineered structures capable of manipulating light paths to achieve the effects described in his "invisibility cloak" concept. This theoretical framework, initially named by Pendry's wife to aid a 2005 DARPA presentation, faced early skepticism before David Smith's team at Duke University successfully constructed a functional prototype for radar waves. The field has since evolved from resolving debates over negative refraction to experimental recreations of conditions existing near black holes.
- All-In Podcast28 min
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
Sequoia Capital, led by a third generation of partners, sustains its legacy by prioritizing long-term value creation and consensus decision-making over aggressive fee maximization. The firm counters industry capital overhang by deploying proprietary AI tools and maintaining a selective investment strategy that has historically generated trillions in public market value through companies like Apple and Nvidia. While navigating geopolitical shifts by separating its Chinese operations and adapting to a regulatory landscape that has drastically reduced startup formation there, Sequoia continues to back founders with exceptional curiosity despite unconventional profiles.
- Milken Institute22 min
Actress Shefali Shah: Stories that Move; Strength that Inspires | Asia Summit 2025
Shefali Shah, Teresa Whang, Curtis S. Chin
Acclaimed actress Shefali Shah, known for her Emmy-winning role as DCP Shreya Sharma in Netflix's *Delhi Crime*, discusses the industry's shift from limiting stereotypical roles to complex character portrayals. She details the upcoming third season of the series, which tackles human trafficking and bride sales through a narrative blending multiple true cases, while highlighting her work in *The Three of Us* and *Adolescence* to explore dementia and social media's impact on children. Shah further emphasizes her advocacy for women's and children's safety, urging audiences to view her award-winning projects to understand these critical social issues.
- Y Combinator13 min
This Startup Is Trying To Delete 29% Of All CO2 Emissions
Remora has launched a solid-pellet based carbon capture system that reduces CO2 emissions by up to 90% in hard-to-electrify diesel trucks and freight trains, converting the captured gas into beverage-grade CO2 for commercial reuse. Backed by $117 million in venture capital, the Detroit-based company is vertically integrating its manufacturing to deploy modular retrofits to major partners like Ryder and Union Pacific while testing the technology on a repurposed locomotive. Co-founders Paul Gross and Christina Reynolds aim to scale this point-source solution to capture one billion tons of carbon annually by overcoming the logistical challenges of retrofitting diverse vehicle fleets.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds
Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Harry Stebbings
OpenAI secured a strategic partnership with AMD to purchase six gigawatts of Instinct chips in exchange for equity warrants, a deal that triggered a 30% surge in AMD's stock price while reinforcing OpenAI's leverage over chip manufacturers. Concurrently, OpenAI Developer Day introduced native app integrations and an "AgentKit" tool to accelerate AI agent development, though critics questioned the immediate utility of these features compared to existing ecosystems. In the broader venture landscape, massive valuations for infrastructure firms like Vercel and Supabase coexist with tightening liquidity for sub-scale assets, as university endowments divest stakes and new SPAC structures aim to curb speculative pricing.
- Goldman Sachs18 min
The Future of Software Engineering: Cognition’s Russell Kaplan
Cognition, founded by former Olympiad medalists and now valued at $4 billion, is advancing software engineering by deploying Devin, an autonomous AI agent capable of executing end-to-end development tasks. The company differentiates itself through a dual-product strategy combining Devin for independent execution with the recently acquired Windsurf IDE for human-in-the-loop collaboration, targeting enterprise integration into proprietary codebases. While AI capabilities in coding are projected to double every seven months, Cognition aims to elevate Devin to senior engineer status within a year, though future growth is anticipated to be constrained by energy availability rather than data scarcity.
- All-In Podcast28 min
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on AI, Censorship & the Future of Creators
Neal Mohan, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg, Ari
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan outlined the platform's dominance with 2 billion monthly active users and over $70 billion paid to creators, while addressing tensions between its 55/45 revenue model and high-profile creators who opt for direct monetization. Mohan defended YouTube's algorithmic fragmentation as a driver of niche engagement while highlighting new AI initiatives that prioritize creator likeness rights and transparency labels over blanket bans. The discussion further detailed strategies to balance global moderation complexities with evolving regulations and a renewed focus on YouTube Premium and TV to reinvent the viewer experience.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Anthropic: The Great Equaliser: How Agentic AI Is Powering Europe’s Next Generation of Startups
Guillaume, Head of Anthropic for EMEA, discusses the strategic deployment of the Cloud4 coding model which self-wrote 90% of its own code to power a growing ecosystem of European startups like Dust and Lovable. The conversation highlights how major enterprises including BMW and Novo Nordisk are utilizing these models as virtual collaborators to accelerate R&D and customer service, while emphasizing Anthropic's strict data sovereignty and safety policies to address European regulatory concerns. Amidst this expansion, the company aims to hire over 100 new staff members across its London, Dublin, and Zurich offices to support the region's robust AI funding environment and mitigate local talent gaps.
- RAISE Summit18 min
A Chat with AI21 Labs: Building Custom AI Systems That Actually Work From Hype to Business Impact
AI21, a foundational LLM builder, highlights the persistent gap between individual AI experimentation and institutional production adoption, driven by "ChatGPT Syndrome" and fear of missing out. The company identifies a critical "underground movement" where employees innovate silently due to a lack of official guidelines, resulting in disjointed pilots and missed collective wisdom. To escape this paralysis, successful deployment requires multidisciplinary teams to map granular workflows and align stakeholders on clear KPIs, transforming informal usage into a structured, high-value organizational framework.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Roshn Group & Enhance Ventures: AI Meets Real Estate: Hype or Real Value
Robert, Yazeed Al-Ghamdi, Aristide, Maria Paula
Saudi Arabia's Roshan giga-project, mandated to deliver 400,000 housing units under Vision 2030, is leveraging Google Cloud AI and a proprietary digital sales platform to generate over 6 billion SAR in revenue while reducing land selection time by 40%. This hybrid transaction model, which integrates global KYC protocols and visualizes amenities for remote buyers, was further accelerated by the region's largest PropTech hackathon that sourced external solutions for operational bottlenecks. Driven by a young demographic and supported by upcoming infrastructure projects, the organization plans to launch a corporate venture capital arm and export its technology stack to international markets within the decade.