This fifth edition is designed to help navigate the innovation leap driven by automatic, affordable, and reliable translation technology. It explores the impact of these advancements—tools that break language barriers and create new opportunities, yet still fall short of true human understanding. At its core, the report poses a fundamental question: Is AI enabling mere understanding or fostering deep comprehension?

A journey through neuroscience, localization, technology, language, and research.
The ultimate resource for understanding AI’s impact on human interaction.
Written by a global community of multidisciplinary experts.

Why Imminent?

In its fifth edition, and an established resource for leaders, the Imminent Research Report is a powerful asset to gain insights and increase an understanding of the world, helping global business leaders, localization professionals, and multidisciplinary experts to better grasp how the many nuances of language and culture can affect their performance.

• To delve deeper into AI’s true impact on what is key to business expansion: deep comprehension, not just mere understanding.

• To explore the most advanced frontiers of language research.
  


• To comprehend AI’s impact in a world where global forces are increasingly shaping local realities.

What is Imminent?

Building a bridge between research and the corporate world – supporting research through publications, interviews, and annual grants, as well as funding groundbreaking projects in the language industry – Imminent, the Translated’s Research Center, was founded to deepen, explore and understand what the key issues, concerns, and expectations are surrounding the relationship between humans and language-related Al. 

Who is Imminent?

Imminent is its community.
Relationships among everyone in the community help build a culture defined by the value of multilingualism, respectful communication between different points of view, and research into uncharted territory. Trustees, Fellows, Staff. A community who share the goal of making it easier for everyone to understand and be understood by everyone else.