Good Tech: How two NUS grads built an AI study tool for struggling students

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Can AI make high-quality academic support more accessible and empower students to learn better, not just faster? Two graduates from the National University of Singapore saw an opportunity to do that. On Good Tech, Lynlee Foo speaks to Andre Lim and Jed Ng, co-founders of Pallo (Formally called Check) , an AI-powered tool developed to offer hyper-personalised academic support for students from secondary school to junior college.

Money FM 89.3, 30 Jul 2025

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