THE BATTLE OF THE BOULEVARD IS OVER. THE BUILDERS HAVE SPOKEN.
48 hours. 6,000 builders. 60 countries. Two buildings turned into the most concentrated grid of technical talent Paris has seen all year, and it came down to the stage today.
To every team who demoed something that didn't exist 48 hours ago: THAT is what RAISE Hackathon is for. Placed or not - you built, you shipped, you showed up. Respect.
Track by track:
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1st - CREATIFIVE: a hands-free AI copilot that turns IKEA manuals (starting with the BILLY bookcase) into interactive 3D step-by-step guides, with voice Q&A, mistake warnings, and photo-based progress checks.
2nd - TEAM NUMBER ONE: a voice-first AI coach that lets teams rehearse high-stakes conversations - pitches, reviews, tough interviews - against lifelike characters with instant feedback.
3rd - NETF: an AI agent that lets anyone connect, control and debug any robot via text or voice just by providing its URDF, turning every session into training data for the whole fleet.
Vultr
1st - ClinTrial: a Vultr-powered enterprise agent that runs clinical trial payment operations end to end.
2nd - json ("Arc"): a cloud-based multi-agent system built to run telecom network operations.
3rd - FlashDeal ("Sell Baby Sell"): turns a property address into an investor-ready deal in about 60 seconds.
4th - MILA: rebuilds an IVF patient's hormone trajectory from scattered medical records.
Google DeepMind
1st - LOW CORTISOL - FLOW TWIN: a stateful hospital operations twin modelling any hospital's day-to-day running in real time.
2nd - ATHENA: when calls flood a call center, Athena transcribes and translates them live while deploying a swarm of agents to structure the data.
3rd - MANTRA: an autonomous agent using Gemini Computer Use to playtest hypercasual game prototypes.
Crusoe
1st - Roboss: autonomous agents that generate photorealistic video-to-action robot training datasets straight from text.
2nd - Praetor: a physics-grounded digital twin built for factory predictive maintenance.
3rd - Call of Dauty: an AI-powered decision support platform to improve Ebola diagnostic test kit resupply during an outbreak in the DRC.
SPECIAL AWARD - BEST USE OF NEMOTRON, by NVIDIA: ROBINSUN.
To our venues Neon Noir. and La Maison, and Cerebral Valley for running point: thank you for the boulevards.
To every partner behind the prizes -
@cursor_ai ,
@Vultr ,
@GoogleDeepMind @CrusoeAI ,
@nvidia , plus
@Microsoft,
@Cloudflare,
@nebiusai ,
@OpenRouter and
@SUSE - RAISE Hackathon does not happen without you.
What an incredible way to kick off RAISE Week. Honoured by every applicant, the passion in the room, the intelligence packed into two buildings - the one place where the top 1% of development talent gathered to build something special.
To the finalists, the winners, and the 6,000 who showed up and built anyway - this is only the beginning.
GO RAISE Hackathon. GO RAISE Week.