The edtech company targets long-term partnerships with startups and considers buying them when building in-house isn’t efficient.

Luis von Ahn says AI isn't replacing jobs at Duolingo, but will require staff to rethink how they work. That may let some ...

Language learning platform Duolingo has announced plans to go "AI-First," a strategy that will integrate AI into more of the company's workflow and eventually eliminate contract workers.

Duolingo CEO Clarifies ... I didn’t do that well.” The clarification comes after internal and external backlash to the company’s AI strategy, which included the replacement of some contract ...

Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn recently announced the company’s significant shift to an “AI-first” strategy. On the surface, it sounded innovative—using generative AI to roll out 148 new ...

Following a section on the ways in which technological innovation had helped Duolingo in the past, von Ahn outlined how his "AI-first" strategy would affect existing workers: We'll be rolling out ...

Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Duolingo is “more than doubling” the number of courses it has ...

See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. Duolingo joins other investors in backing an AI tutoring startup. Find out how this aligns with the language-learning app's recent AI ...