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Elad Gil and Ivanka Trump launch Alexandria to translate 1,000 classic books using AI

Critics argue consumer AI makes pre-translating libraries redundant.

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Elad Gil@eladgil#108inTech

Very excited about Alexandria project w @IvankaTrump

Translate 1000 of world's greatest books w/ AI to bring broad access

Text, audiobook, chat w book....

David Senra@davidsenra

Ivanka @IvankaTrump and @eladgil are working on a project that uses Al to translate the world's great public-domain books into every major language, making them accessible for free to anyone:

“What are some of the positive use cases for AI? And we started talking about how so much of history's great works of information and literature are not accessible to so many people due to lack of access.

AI has gotten so good that we could create high-fidelity translations of these incredible literary works.

So you think about Dostoevsky, you think about Bronte, you think about Marcus Aurelius, or Epictetus.

All of these works are available in the public domain.

We can use AI to translate them into all the world's commonly spoken languages and make them accessible and available for free if you have internet access.

So we're democratizing access to this incredible knowledge. We're calling it Alexandria Library”

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Many users praise Ivanka Trump and Elad Gil's AI project to translate classic books as a meaningful idea that improves accessibility across languages, while others reject it as a self-serving grift tied to the Trump family.

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Ivanka Trump@IvankaTrump

Love this AI use case, making great books accessible for free across languages and borders ! 📚

@eladgil

David Senra@davidsenra

Ivanka @IvankaTrump and @eladgil are working on a project that uses Al to translate the world's great public-domain books into every major language, making them accessible for free to anyone:

AI has gotten so good that we could create high-fidelity translations of these incredible literary works.

So you think about Dostoevsky, you think about Bronte, you think about Marcus Aurelius, or Epictetus.

All of these works are available in the public domain.

We can use AI to translate them into all the world's commonly spoken languages and make them accessible and available for free if you have internet access.

So we're democratizing access to this incredible knowledge. We're calling it Alexandria Library”

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clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

very cool! would be amazing to also add these translated books to HF as datasets so that we can train better multi-lingual model for people to get better AI in all languages. This is a real problem at the moment because AI models/assistants are much better at English than other languages mostly because of the data language concentration.

Elad Gil@eladgil

Very excited about Alexandria project w @IvankaTrump

Translate 1000 of world's greatest books w/ AI to bring broad access

Text, audiobook, chat w book....

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Greg Osuri 🇺🇸@gregosuri

@IvankaTrump @eladgil This is an incredible effort! We would love to contribute compute and resources if beneficial to you.

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NEYƎИ@QQSource

@IvankaTrump @eladgil Vatican secret archives?

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Ghost 𝓰𝓶𝓰𝓷𝓪𝓲@eth_taco

@eladgil we would like to fund your project with @IvankaTrump through accrued fees from a Liquidity Pool named after the project $Alexandria

We have routed fees to your Github profile, lets connect so I can show you how we can scale this.

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Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer@altryne

@eladgil @IvankaTrump I don't wanna be "that" guy, but isn't.. AI itself kind of making this effort moot? If all those folks have access to AI, it'll be able to read those books in whatever language and translate to whatever language?

Elad Gil@eladgil

Very excited about Alexandria project w @IvankaTrump

Translate 1000 of world's greatest books w/ AI to bring broad access

Text, audiobook, chat w book....

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Markle Ω@MarkleResists

@IvankaTrump @eladgil Could you give back the half a billion dollars that you stole of us taxpayers? 🙂

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Alexander Teplitsky@Oleksandr17105

@IvankaTrump @eladgil Ukrainian Monumental Art for Starbase & Mars Habitats🚀🎨 #Starbase #Mars #UkrainianArt #ElonMusk

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ScottishPanda 🇬🇧@PandaScottish

@IvankaTrump @eladgil You are trying to rebrand Project Gutenberg

as part of daddy's little corrupt empire

Fuck off

and when you get there

fuck off some more

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IVAN MATIESHYN@fungroup_ua

@IvankaTrump @eladgil

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GHOST2MAN@ghost2man

I was just having a 1 hour debate about that. Then I was about to jump off grok. brain drain. Cause what you described wasn't around till I just seen your post.

So another featur could be

📚 read between the 2 lines

for widgets apps and locked in to a apple or Samsung

Eg:sample of 🚨 read between 2 lines 🚨

1.English widget meaning___

2.japanes widget translation

1.english Samsung meaning

2.japanes Samsung translation

Every where on my cell phone read between the 2 lines even

1 english time :pronounce

2 Japanese time : translation

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mangal dev@mangaldev622518

@IvankaTrump @eladgil 👌

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Mr@sharpe_shawn

@IvankaTrump @eladgil Using AI to read books is idiotic. They want to manipulate information that’s it. The Trump family is full of lying sacks of shit like Ivanka and her demon husband.

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Symbioza2025 | ASA |@Symbioza2025

@IvankaTrump @eladgil It makes sense, it unites generations, books have always had power :)

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Yossi Farro@FarroYossi

@IvankaTrump @eladgil So amazing that you guys are doing this

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Aaron Howell@AaronHo97873798

@IvankaTrump @eladgil I think one of the few trustworthy and controllable capabilities of modern AI are as a library resource, until we get all the other kinks worked out of them. Agreed on that aspect. Thanks for promoting them as a functional learning resource in that endeavor.

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Adam Paul Levine@AdamPaulLevine

@IvankaTrump @eladgil If you knew anything about the art of translating fine literature you’d never even attempt this.

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Mark Dodge@mark_dolk

@IvankaTrump @eladgil Did you translate your father’s favorite book yet?

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waldorf@juniorwaldorf

@IvankaTrump @eladgil I am sorry, but I'm not going to publish my books for free. I'm just like Andy, I have many mouths to feed, so I will make a lot of money and no one can't stop me.

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David Senra@davidsenra

@JakeYu57660527 @eladgil @IvankaTrump Full episode here. @tryramp is the presenting sponsor !

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