Congratulations to @MaxJunestrand and the @WeAreLegora team on their $550M Series E! Legora announced today that the round values the company at $8.8B, and that ARR has passed $200M. The second $100M took less than six months. On the All-In stage at RAISE, Max made a point that’s easy to miss in a funding headline: “There’s a lot of legal AI companies, and very few are making it through. And not because it’s hard to build stuff… getting it to the customer is very hard.” He added that once you’re in, “it’s much easier to expand.” Today’s announcement shows what that looks like. In-house legal teams were a small fraction of Legora’s customers a year ago. In Q3 they made up more than 40% of new ones, and more than half of the AmLaw 50 now use the platform. What stands out is how they get there. Legora places forward-deployed lawyers directly alongside its customers’ partners, an admission that the hardest work happens after the contract is signed. Legal is showing what happens once agents move into multi-step work at a profession’s core. Which function do you think goes next?

“Europe accounts for only 5% of the AI compute capabilities that are installed today in the world. That’s nowhere near enough.” @NVIDIA’s Paolo Guglielmini said that on the RAISE 2026 Master Stage. Three months later, NVIDIA is doubling down on French AI, with new investments in startups including @gs_ai_ and @gopigment.  Genesis AI is building general-purpose robots, exactly the frontier NVIDIA’s David Hogan pointed to at RAISE: “Most things that move will become robotic… and that’s something that Europe knows a lot about.” Pigment CEO Eléonore Crespo shared where enterprise AI is heading: a future where “anyone can become an agent manager.” 5% is the starting point, not the ceiling.

At RAISE, the press doesn’t just cover the conversation. They lead it. In 2026, journalists from @Reuters, @Bloomberg and @Forbes took the stage as moderators, putting the hard questions to the founders and executives shaping AI. Then they took those conversations back to their newsrooms. @Breakingviews' @KarenKKwok moderated two sessions on the real economics of AI. The next day, her column was asking the same question to a global audience. That’s the RAISE ecosystem: what’s said on our stage reaches the readers, investors and decision-makers who follow these newsrooms. A huge thank you to every partnership that shaped RAISE 2026.

“Twelve months is an eternity in AI. I don’t even know what will happen in three months, to be honest.” At RAISE 2026, @OpenAI’s @sk7037 captured the pace of the industry in a single sentence. Three months later, two predictions from that same stage are already taking shape. 1. The CPU is back. @PGelsinger predicted that agentic AI would shift the CPU-to-GPU ratio from 1:16 toward 1:2, or even 1:1. “So the CPU is sexy again.” The industry is catching up. @AMD is now pointing to agentic workloads driving CPU-to-GPU ratios toward parity, reinforcing the growing importance of CPUs in AI infrastructure. 2. Open source will win. @MistralAI’s @arthurmensch told the RAISE stage that open source is “eventually going to succeed.” This week, Mistral unveiled Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter model pushing the frontier of open-weight AI. Its VP of Science, @PierreStock, reinforced the ambition behind that approach: a future where access to advanced AI isn't controlled by a handful of closed providers. Two predictions. Three months. An industry already moving in their direction. Sachin was right about one thing: in AI, even three months can feel like an eternity. The question isn't just what happens next. It's who's seeing it coming. RAISE returns in July 2027, bringing together the people shaping what comes next in AI.