Duolingo CEO on Why AI Won't Kill Language Learning

Summary

Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn says daily active users are growing about 29% a year as the app has become more engaging, and he explains how the company plans to close the gap with paid subscriber growth next year. He breaks down how moving to open-weight AI models cut the cost of a video call practice session from about 30 cents to less than a cent, why most of Duolingo's AI will soon run on open models and why he isn't worried that AI chatbots or real-time translation will replace language learning. Plus, the story behind the owl and his take on Jensen Huang's resignation from…

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