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Turning Trusted Books into Personal Learning Agents with Aibrary


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Frank Wu is the Co-founder of Aibrary and a Harvard Kennedy School MPP graduate. He led 20+ edtech and AI investments at TAL, helped build Think Academy in the U.S., and previously taught 3M+ students.

Susan Wang is the Chief Growth Officer at Aibrary and a Yale and Harvard Business School alum. She led creator and product operations at TikTok and worked in strategy at TAL, with deep experience scaling edtech products.

💡 5 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode

  1. How AI is reshaping lifelong learning and adult skill development.
  2. Why Aibrary turns trusted books into personalized, bite-sized audio.
  3. How Idea Twin customizes learning using your goals and context.
  4. How Aibrary blends learning with action to drive real-world application.
  5. Aibrary’s long-term vision to build an AI-native university.

✨ Episode Highlights
[00:01:00]
Frank Wu on the fragmentation of adult learning.
[00:03:00] How AI is increasing the urgency for lifelong learning.
[00:08:22] Susan Wang on converting books into daily micro-learning.
[00:13:53] Why Aibrary grounds all content in trusted, authoritative sources.
[00:20:06] Personalization through goal-setting and AI agents.
[00:23:54] Applying ideas to real life as the core of true learning.
[00:29:39] Why Aibrary started with audio and when video is coming.
[00:33:29] The bridge from consumer learning to enterprise and micro-credentials.
[00:40:09] How future education will merge self-knowledge, world knowledge, and action.
[00:48:58] What’s next for Aibrary’s evolving AI learning companions.

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