Pulling out the AI stops at RAISE Summit Paris
Everyone who’s anyone in the crazy artificial intelligence world attended the RAISE Summit in Paris this week. Bigger, noisier and more crowded than last year’s installment, this year’s summit featured a level of buzz I haven’t seen since the dot-com days.
And that buzz? It’s all about the money.
What I found at RAISE was a furious crescendo of investment. Billions of Euros and dollars flooding into data centers as neoclouds rush their offerings to market. Software vendors furiously pivoting from whatever business model worked in the old days of 2025 to some newly found AI religion. And the enterprises struggling to keep up, delicately balancing investment in innovation against traditional concerns about security and compliance risk.
The risk most evident at RAISE was the risk of FOMO – fear of missing out – as participants, exhibitors and speakers all proclaimed the NEXT BIG THING.
