Topics: AI, Global Governance, Interview, Enterprise AI, Startups, World Summit AI, Sovereign AI, InspiredMinds! Community Hub, Agentic AI Infrastructure, Pathfounders, Rent AI

Multilingual AI has a longitude problem. For centuries, sailors could fix their latitude from the stars, but not their longitude, until a Yorkshire clockmaker built a timepiece precise enough to survive the ocean. Marzieh Fadaee, Head of Cohere Labs, has described her own research in almost identical terms: she is "exploring the longitude problem of AI" (X), the puzzle of giving language models a genuine sense of place when nearly everything about how they are built, measured and rewarded still points due English.

Topics: AI, Global Governance, Interview, Enterprise AI, Startups, World Summit AI, Sovereign AI, InspiredMinds! Community Hub, Agentic AI Infrastructure, Pathfounders, Rent AI

In April 2026, Uber's engineering leadership discovered that a five-thousand-person team had burned through the company's entire annual AI budget in four months. Per-engineer token costs were running $500 to $2,000 a month, usage had doubled in eight weeks, and the company's COO admitted the surge in spend wasn't translating into proportionally better products (Forbes,Reuters). Uber was not an outlier. The FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps report found that 73% of enterprises exceeded their original AI cost projections this year, even as the price of a single token kept falling (TechCrunch).

That paradox, cheaper tokens and bigger bills, is exactly the terrain Meryem Arik has spent the last several years mapping. Meryem is Co-founder and CEO of Doubleword, a London-based inference platform that helps enterprises self-host open source and custom AI models (Doubleword), and she was recently interviewed by our Chief Editor, Fawn Hudgens, to talk through what she calls the "hot open weight summer": a moment when cost pressure and a jolt of geopolitical risk are forcing enterprise leaders to rethink how they buy intelligence, not just which model they buy.

Topics: AI, Global Governance, Interview, Enterprise AI, Startups, World Summit AI, Sovereign AI, InspiredMinds! Community Hub, Agentic AI Infrastructure, Pathfounders, Rent AI

Creative Destruction Lab (“CDL”) is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science- and technology-driven startups. The program takes no equity and charges no fees - it is funded through philanthropy.

At the core of the CDL program is a series of four intensive, full-day summit meetings that take place from fall to next summer where founders meet with a curated group of super-angels, successful tech entrepreneurs, and star scientists to set short-term objectives and raise capital.

Topics: AI, Startups

Our renowned Start-up City and Innovation Showcase exhibition area has been so successful that we have dedicated a brand new & exclusive space to fuel even more connections at World Summit AI 2023 (11-12 October, Taets Art & Event Park, Amsterdam).

If you’re a start-up, you can be in the centre of the AI ecosystem at World Summit AI this October AND World AI Week by booking a Pod at The Accelerator.

Topics: AI, Startups, AIbrains

Jana Novohradska, AI Consultant to Deputy Prime Minister`s Office of Slovakia & Gender Equality Rapporteur CAHAI Council of Europe, is one of the panelists on our 'Governing AI' panel at World Summit AI Americas in Montreal.  We caught up with her ahead of the summit. 

Topics: AI, Data, Machine Learning, Interview, Startups

He may only be 13, but Artash Nath has already been working at the interface of space, robotics and artificial intelligence for the last few years, presenting his projects at multiple international conferences. He is interested in deep space exploration and has been applying machine learning models to space challenges, including predicting risk index of an asteroid collision with Earth and detecting atmospheres of exoplanets using simulated data from space telescopes. His ongoing project is on creating curious and intelligent machines that learn by being placed in an immersive environment. They make efforts to understand cause and effect and are not hesitant to ask “why”.

Topics: AI, Data, Machine Learning, Interview, Startups

In just a few years, it will be practically impossible to find a single industry left unaffected by the meteoric rise of Artificial Intelligence.

This disruptive blend of computer science, statistical models, and reasoning with big data is propelling the Fourth Industrial Revolution forward and changing core industries like agriculture, energy and healthcare while also hinting at solutions to a range of modern challenges.

But how is the world of retail using AI to transform the in-store environment to offer superior experiences and achieve higher revenues?

Topics: AI, AI Platforms, Business, Retail, Startups