Francois Beaufort
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- RAISE Summit37 min
OVH Cloud, ClickHouse, Neon, Aiven, Airbyte & Commit: Open Software Infrastructure 2.0
Abel, German, Oskari, Heike, Michel, Alexei, Francois Beaufort
Executives from Aiven, Neon, Airbyte, ClickHouse, and OVHcloud converged to discuss how open-source data platforms are securing $10 billion in combined valuations while addressing enterprise needs for data sovereignty and interoperability. The panel detailed how the AI boom is driving a shift from human-led development to agentic provisioning, creating demand for storage-centric architectures that support short-lived, unstructured data workloads. Looking ahead, industry leaders predict a five-year trajectory where hundreds of millions of citizen developers leverage commoditized AI to compress development cycles, necessitating hybrid infrastructure strategies that balance local model execution with scalable cloud data management.
- RAISE Summit19 min
A Fireside Chat: Beyond Asimov's Laws: How GenesisAI is Bringing AI to the Physical World
Omar, Sebastien Detranier, Francois Beaufort, Theo Varontas
Genesis AI is a Paris-San Francisco startup backed by Eclipse, BP France, and Alvin that aims to automate 50% of the global economy's physical tasks by applying internet-scale foundation models to general-purpose robotics. Co-founder Sebastien Degraffe leverages a proprietary physics engine and a three-pronged data strategy to solve the scarcity of diverse robotics training data, differentiating the firm from competitors reliant on expensive human-in-the-loop collection methods. With a seed round exceeding $100 million, the company plans to deploy Proof of Concepts in pharmaceutical labs and hotels within the next year while targeting full-scale commercialization of adaptable, generalist machines over a three-to-five-year timeline.