AI/Tech Talks at Thunderbird – November 2025 | Monthly Series

Date: November 20

Time: 1:30 – 2:30 PM

Location: Thunderbird Global Headquarters Building, Room 331

Tentative Agenda:

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM (15 min): Lunch – will be provided.

1:30PM - 2:30 PM (60 min):

1. Welcome and Opening Remarks - Dr. Lena Booth, Deputy Dean, Thunderbird Academic Enterprise and Finance Professor
2. "China’s Rise in the AI Global Competition: Alibaba, Deepseek, and US-China Relations". Keynote speaker - Dr. Doug Guthrie, Executive Director (ACD) & Professor, Thunderbird School of Global Management
3. Q&A session
4. Action Items and Closing Remarks - Anjelina Belakovskaia, Chair of the AI and Emerging Technologies Committee, Thunderbird School of Global Management

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AI/Tech Talks at Thunderbird

Dear Thunderbird and ASU Community,

October 2025 has been a landmark month for the democratization of AI, with major players releasing tools that significantly lower the barrier to entry for AI application development, collaborative innovation, and advanced content creation. The most significant trend is the emergence of “vibe coding” platforms, which allow users to create complex, multi-modal AI applications from a single natural language prompt. Google’s AI Studio is at the forefront of this movement, enabling non-coders to build sophisticated AI tools in minutes.

Simultaneously, the AI development landscape has matured with the release of Cursor’s Composer LLM, a specialized coding model that promises a 4x speed boost and is designed for agentic workflows. In the collaborative space, Miro’s AI Innovation Workspace is redefining teamwork by integrating AI agents directly into the collaborative canvas.

These developments, coupled with increased access to powerful video generation tools like OpenAI’s Sora and new creative suites from Adobe and xAI, signal a shift from AI as a specialized tool to a ubiquitous creative partner. For higher education, this presents an unprecedented opportunity to integrate AI into every facet of learning, from course material creation and student projects to collaborative research and personalized education.

If you want to stay on top of cutting age AI innovations, latest developments and free creation tools that are worth the time, subscribe to https://anjelinabelakovskaia.substack.com/ . I just published October 2025 - Cutting-Edge AI Developments - The Brand New Stuff report and I’m releasing a four-part series that answers exactly that – what to pick, where it fits, and how to avoid the rabbit holes.

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Best regards,

Anjelina Belakovskaia

Associate Teaching Professor

Chair of the AI & Emerging Technologies Committee

Thunderbird School of Global Management

Arizona State University

(520)370-0700

Anjelina@thunderbird.asu.edu