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In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with Nour Al Hassan, founder of Tarjama and Arabic AI, to unpack how she’s turning Arabic into a frontier for enterprise AI innovation.
From hiring women working at home in Jordan to building the #1 Arabic large language model, Nour’s journey is a masterclass in grit, vision, and cultural pride. They talk about data sovereignty, dialectal nuance, small language models, and what it really means to build AI that reflects identity, not just intelligence.
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In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with Mike Parsons, Data and AI Lead at Air New Zealand, the country’s national airline. Known for its culture of innovation and deep Māori values of guardianship, New Zealand is blending ethics, technology, and sustainability in ways few nations have attempted …
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with Jeff Dean, Google’s Chief Scientist and the mind behind some of the company’s biggest AI breakthroughs. From the powerful Gemini model to Google Translate and speech recognition, his work has shaped how billions use technology every day.
Together, they explore the future of AI, how Google is building smarter, greener, and more inclusive systems.
In this episode Dr. Ayesha Khanna sits down with Bolor-Erdene Battsengel, Mongolia’s youngest Vice Minister and now a global advocate for AI inclusion and women in tech. We talked about her journey from herding horses to digitising over 1,500 government services through the landmark e-Mongolia project. This episode is all about courage, culture, and the belief that AI can bridge divides instead of widening them!
In this episode of AI Across Borders, Dr Ayesha Khanna sits down with Niceaunties, the Singapore-based artist turning auntie culture into surreal AI-powered art. From growing up with aunties and manga in the ’80s to reimagining those memories with generative AI, she’s built an Auntieverse reaching galleries in Paris, Basel and Los Angeles. They talk about creativity, aging, and why AI might be the most collaborative art partner yet.
