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Europe, China, US: Three different AI races on the same track

The International Federation of Robotics counted 542,000 industrial robot installations worldwide in 2024. China took 295,000 of them, more than half. Europe installed about 85,000,...

Foundation models: When they become a commodity, where will enterprise competitive advantage come from?

If every company can access AI of comparable capability, what will differentiate tomorrow’s market leaders? The answer lies not in the model itself, but in...

Breaking through the AI transformation bottleneck: Rebuilding organizational capabilities

Enterprise investment in AI is reaching unprecedented levels, yet only a minority of organizations are successfully translating that investment into value at scale. The gap...

What the Battle of Red Cliffs can teach us about enterprise AI transformation

The Battle of Red Cliffs is often remembered as a story of an outnumbered force defeating a much larger army. But from an enterprise AI...

Why GEO in China is different from the West

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is becoming a new priority for brands seeking visibility in AI-powered search. But in China, simply importing a Western GEO playbook...

China AI transformation: Slow and steady wins the race

AI is advancing at unprecedented speed, and the pressure to keep up is everywhere. Companies are racing to adopt the latest tools, benchmark against competitors,...

China’s AI advantage: The Token Economics

For the past two years, the AI race has largely revolved around one question: Whose model is the smartest? But as model capabilities converge and...

AI in China: A view from Shanghai, and why Western business should pay attention

The global AI conversation is often framed as a race between frontier models: who leads, whose model performs best, and who has access to the...

Why Enterprise AI needs more than RAG to reach production

While many companies start their AI journey with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), they soon discover its structural limits. At the Databricks Data + AI Summit, consulting...

Nothing has changed, yet everything is different: the new era of IBP

The real bottleneck of AI agents: How to build an AI-first culture and ROI-driven knowledge hubs

Every organization trying to accelerate AI adoption hits the same wall: the knowledge that actually drives business outcomes lives inside people's heads. It doesn't reside...

AI rituals that work: low-cost habits that turn AI tools into everyday practice

What we see in organisations where AI has become routine is a small number of repeated activities, kept going for a year or more, rather...