Ivanka Trump and Elad Gil's Project Alexandria will AI-translate 1,000 classics
Ivanka Trump · Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life · May 31, 2026 · at 1:03:44
Ivanka Trump discusses Project Alexandria, a non-profit initiative created with investor Elad Gil to translate public domain literature into global spoken languages using generative AI.
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“We're calling it, we haven't launched yet, but we're about to launch with the first 1000 works, and we're gonna learn a lot, and people will give us feedback on each of the translations, but imagine now meditations will be translated into most of the world's spoken languages, so we're covering, like, 95% of all languages spoken and available for free if you have internet access, so we're democratizing access to this incredible knowledge.”
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