- The AI learning agent, HowNow Guru, will be launched at Learning Technologies UK 2025
- Product investment feeds a strong appetite for learning technology fueled by AI
HowNow – The AI learning and skills platform fueled by AI today announces “HowNow Guru” – an AI agent who teaches, challenges and adapts to the individual learner's capacities and skills gaps, offering the right knowledge and expertise of verified experts, when they need it.
Unlike traditional learning tools, Guru does not provide generic content or passive learning experiences. He acts as a coach always against who includes the learner, adapts to their level of competence and provides comments and support according to the way they practice, what they must improve and the commercial context in which they work.
Employees can use Guru to simulate real world scenarios through role -playing games generated by AI, complete check -up checks and quizs adapted to their level, explore deeper concepts through related information and follow their progress with current skills reviews. Each interaction adapts to the way they learn, what they master and what still needs to work – transform a conversation into a full learning course. Guru is also integrated into the HowNow platform, which allows him to rely on the content of the organization, the learner's history and the live performance data to provide appropriate and relevant support – and everything without increasing the administrator or complexity for L&D teams.
Nelson Sivalingam, co-founder and CEO of HowNow, said: “In Guru, we have essentially created a world class teacher who does not only know everything that the organization knows, but who is also equipped with the frameworks he needs to coach people in the best possible way. Capacity, which informs a very tailor -made learning and an effective change in behavior. »»
Sivalingam added: “Guru is built from zero as an AI learning agent – it is interactive, personalized and deeply connected to the organization. It gives each employee the possibility of practicing, improving and growing, without waiting for a course or a coach. ”
Customers can choose to feed Guru using their own learning content or connect it with third -party sources, including HowNow Partners, Assemble you And gatabstract.
GETABISTRACT – The largest global library of experienced experts of experts verified – allows Guru to use ideas for trust leaders and apply them in coaching conversations, to transform abstract ideas into exploitable guidance.
Commenting on his partnership with HowNow, Thomas Bergen, co-founder and CEO of Getabstract, said: “The quality of AI agents depends deeply on the quality of the underlying knowledge base. With Getabstract as an expert knowledge partner verified, HowNow has chosen the best database for AI coaches on the market. ”
The continuous investment of HowNow in the learning powered by AI nourishes a strong appetite among the L&D community. The results of L&D Global Senture Survey (GSS) 2025 confirm that AI remains in the lead, after having kept the number one place of the survey with almost a quarter (22.6%) of all the votes, against 21.5% last year.
The annual GSS invites the L&D global community to vote on what will be hot in L&D in the workplace during the coming year, the respondents choosing up to three options on a list of sixteen. The results of the 2025 survey received votes of 3,339 respondents in 93 countries and will be announced to UK learning technologies on April 23 and 24.
Donald H. Taylor, principal researcher for L&D Global Sensation Survey 2025, and president of learning UK technologies, said: “The ascendant of the AI started in the 2023 survey, after the launch of Chatgpt, and results in the normal trend for the votes for the reduction of the opportunities of faster roads towards an effective large -scale scaling. »»
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