Craig Leppan (Imbila)

Demis Hassabis at Davos - Google has its mojo back.

At Bloomberg Live during WEF Davos 2026, Demis Hassabis laid out a clear, pragmatic view of where AI is heading—and what matters for organisations making decisions now. 1. AGI Is Closer Than Most Planning Cycles * Hassabis sticks to a 50% chance of AGI by 2030 * Not just smarter chatbots—

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Salesforce, AI, and the Cost of Getting Ahead of Yourself

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From Chatbots to AI Colleagues

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HR’s New Mandate: Redesigning Work for the AI Era

Elon Musk on the Singularity, Abundance, and the Supersonic Tsunami of Change

In a wide-ranging annual deep dive, Peter Diamandis and Dave Blundin sat down with Elon Musk to map out what the next decade may look like for humanity. The tone is striking: relentlessly optimistic, but not naïve. Musk is clear-eyed about the disruption ahead—yet convinced that abundance, not collapse,

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2026: The AI Infrastructure Is Here. Now the Real Work Begins.

Future-Proofing Talent and Leadership in the Age of AI

The core shift leaders need to understand AI is no longer a productivity tool at the edges of the organisation. It is becoming foundational infrastructure, comparable to the internet or cloud computing. As this happens, the nature of work is changing: * Job titles matter less than capabilities * Roles evolve every

From AI Skeptic to All-In

In a recent YC Light Cone podcast, Amplitude CEO Spencer Skates described a rapid shift many established companies are now facing: moving from AI skepticism to making AI central to their strategy. Amplitude didn’t pivot because of hype or pressure from the market. The change came when internal teams

Google for Education’s AI Avalanche—Where Does the Competition Stand?

The 2025 Google for Education Launch Guide isn’t a routine update; it’s a signal flare. A catalogue of 150+ new features, models, certifications, hardware updates, and AI-powered resources — all stitched together in a single, defensible ecosystem — makes one thing crystal clear: Google wants to own the education layer

Enterprise RAG: The 2026 Reality Check

Everyone loves the “chat with your data” demo. Upload a PDF → ask a question → magic. But in the real world — 500 employees, 10 years of files, complex permissions — that magic gets messy very quickly. That’s the 2026 AI challenge. At Imbila.ai, we think Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) will be

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From Crude Sketch to Precision Print: How AI is Democratizing 3D Design

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The Great AI Role Reversal: Why Sam Altman Declared “Code Red”

From Literacy to Building

For the past two years, most of the AI conversation has revolved around literacy. How to prompt. How to chat. How to “use” the tools. It was a useful phase — necessary even — because it helped people recognise that the interface had changed. But this phase is coming to an end.

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What Google’s Gemini 3 Reveal Means for How We Build in 2026

its great to write today from a little island in Thailand! we are a year old today and looking forward to 2026

Department of Home Affairs - AI-Driven Digital Transformation

The queue at the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has long been a colloquial benchmark for frustration in South Africa. For executives and operational leaders, however, the challenges facing the DHA—legacy infrastructure, manual bottlenecks, and vulnerability to fraud—are not unique to the public sector. They represent a massive,

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The B20 Just Drew the Line: Digital Transformation Must Be Human-Centred

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The AI Gap Is Getting Dangerous

When Even Apple Rents Its Intelligence

will apple have its nokia moment? how long can a hardware company fall behind on ai

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The New Work Paradigm: Why Freelancers Are Outpacing Full-Time Employees in the AI Era

Agentic AI is here — but the real hurdle isn’t tech

The next AI wave isn’t about smarter models. It’s about trust. MMC Ventures’ new State of Agentic AI: Founders’ Edition report interviewed 30 startup founders and 40 enterprise leaders — and one pattern stood out: the companies winning with AI agents aren’t chasing full autonomy. They’re mastering

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From Idea to $650 Million Exit: Lessons Every AI Founder Should Steal

The AI Lego Box: Why Composability Wins

When you open a box of Lego, the first thing you notice is how everything fits. Every block, regardless of its age or color, shares a common language of studs and sockets. That’s what makes Lego infinite — not the pieces themselves, but the compatibility. Now imagine the same principle

The AI Gap: Why Personal Adoption Is Racing Ahead of the Workplace

We’re living through one of the fastest technology shifts in history. According to the Financial Times, ChatGPT alone now logs over 18 billion messages a week from 700 million users—numbers that outpaced the early internet. Add Meta AI’s 1 billion users, Google AI Overviews’ 2 billion, and

AI Realism: Why Karpathy Says the Next Decade Belongs to Builders, Not Believers

Who is Andrej Karpathy? A leading voice in modern AI, Karpathy was a founding member of OpenAI, Director of AI at Tesla, and a Stanford researcher under Fei-Fei Li. He helped shape the deep-learning revolution that underpins today’s language models and autonomous systems.

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The Death of Prompt–Copy–Paste: Where the Next AI Wave Begins

The AI tools that matter now aren’t just clever chatbots — they’re the ones quietly erasing the need to leave your workflow at all. In his video “I Surveyed 100+ AI Tools—ChatGPT Stops Where the Best Ones Start,” strategist Nate B. Jones draws a sharp line between surface-level