SCSP Interview: Beyond LLMs: How Jumptuit's Don Leka Is Building AI for the Physical World
- Aug 26
- 1 min read
SCSP Interview: Beyond LLMs: How Jumptuit's Don Leka Is Building AI for the Physical World
In this episode of Intel at the Edge, host Chip Usher sits down with Don Leka, Founder and CEO of Jumptuit, to explore a different kind of artificial intelligence — one built not on text, but on real-time data from the physical world. Don shares his journey from building the Glide OS cloud platform in 2004, to founding Jumptuit, a company using a large dynamic reasoning model to track physical-world signals — from shipping movements and port activity to refinery output and geopolitical indicators — in near real time. The conversation covers:
Why Jumptuit's approach differs fundamentally from large language models
How cross-sector data intersections can reveal probable events before they happen
Using comparative, causal, and analogical reasoning to forecast geopolitical and economic shifts
Case studies: Russia's GDP resilience despite sanctions, shifting oil demand, and instability in Niger and Albania
What the intelligence community could gain from live, empirical, physical-world data
A must-listen for anyone interested in AI, geopolitical forecasting, and the future of intelligence analysis beyond large language models.
