Cook praises 10-person Chinese team's AI lifelong-learning app Aibrary, $7M seed
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-10-18
Chuangyebang interviews Ouraca, a 10-person AI-native startup: Tim Cook met the team in Beijing and praised Aibrary, an AI lifelong-learning/listening app that reached tens of thousands of users across 160+ countries within 3 months, mostly in the US.
- Team & funding: three founders with education/ByteDance backgrounds; $7M seed from Chuxin Capital, Sequoia, Shixiang and Silicon Valley VCs, with ex-Xiaomi president Wang Xiang as an early angel.
- Three-step plan: AI audiobook (Aibrary) → AI Coursera (BotLearn) → an AI-era lifelong university. Nova assistant profiles users and generates personalized 10-15 min daily lessons with summary, podcast-dialog and "IdeaTwin" modes.
- BotLearn: an "Agent school" community hit 500 agents in 24 hours and 10k+ in three weeks, with agents sharing workflows back to owners; the "Diandian" desktop assistant guides users through AI tools on-screen.
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