Gil: Project Alexandria will translate foundational books for 80% of humanity
Elad Gil · #2297 Elad Gil backed 40 unicorns. This is next · Feb 24, 2026 · at 27:43
Investor and entrepreneur Elad Gil discusses his personal AI-driven philanthropic projects with Andrew Warner.
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“So one thing that I might even be working on is taking working with OpenAI and Anthropic and 11 and a few other folks on taking the world's most important books and using machine translation to translate them into languages that represent over 80% of humanity Creating audio versions of that in every language that's supported and basically just providing it as a free resource on the internet. And so we're calling that Alexandria after the, you know, great library of Alexandria.”
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