Rachel Metz
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- RAISE Summit19 min
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.
- RAISE Summit21 min
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.
- RAISE Summit22 min
David Bitton, David Dubrovsky, Andrew Dieckman & Rachel Metz | Fireside Chat with 5C & AMD
David Bitton, David Dubrovsky, Andrew Dieckman, Rachel Metz
The event examines the strategic co-design partnership between infrastructure builder 5C and chipmaker AMD, which aims to resolve global compute shortages through vertically integrated data centers optimized for multi-generational hardware cycles. Industry leaders prioritize site selection based on power grid capacity, political stability, and proactive community engagement to mitigate opposition while managing the intense market consolidation where top customers control half of global demand. Looking toward a decade ahead, the discussion outlines a bifurcated infrastructure future featuring massive liquid-cooled training clusters alongside edge AI, driven by the necessity of flexible power allocation and deep strategic trust between partners.
- RAISE Summit40 min
Windsurf, BUZZ HPC, Gnosis, ElevenLabs, Prosus & Bloomberg: The Agentic Economy AI’s Unseen Hand
Rachel Metz, Tim Cowley, Jero, Alex, Matty, Maria Zuber, Matias Niemelaer, Andrzej Baliczak
A diverse panel of industry leaders from BuzzHPC, Prozus, Windsurf, and 11 Labs defined AI agents as autonomous systems requiring multi-modal feedback loops to drive enterprise adoption. Real-world deployments at companies like DHL and Prozus have demonstrated significant operational gains, including 20% faster delivery times and a 1.7 million-hour productivity increase, while OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf validates the technology's strategic value in software engineering. Despite hurdles regarding data disambiguation and regulatory compliance, the panel predicts a shift toward a task-based internet where agents outperform human operators in efficiency and revenue generation.