As artificial intelligence reshapes global power, Armenia is beginning to grapple with a new question: what does technological sovereignty mean for a small state? Elen Tovmasyan explores an emerging doctrine that rejects AI grandeur in favor of strategic dependence, local adaptation and institutional resilience.

Krisp, known for eliminating background noise, is moving into a new phase of voice AI. Its Accent Understanding feature aims to make speech easier to follow across accents, raising both practical benefits for global work and deeper questions about identity and communication.

At Yerevan State University, a new supercomputing center powered by 64 NVIDIA H100 GPUs is transforming Armenia’s AI research landscape. Backed by major public investment, the facility lifts long-standing computational limits, enabling advanced machine learning, cross-disciplinary collaboration and stronger global scientific partnerships.

Armenian finally sounds natural in AI. Elen Tovmasyan explores how Podcastle’s new Armenian text-to-speech technology could transform media, education, accessibility and diaspora engagement, while raising important questions about ethics, voice ownership and what it means for a “small” language to enter global AI systems.