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Duolingo faced significant backlash for announcing that it would become an "AI-first" company -- and yet, the app posted ...
CEO Luis von Ahn acknowledged that the company’s customer growth, while still impressive, was dampened by his AI commentary.
Duolingo stock is surging on momentum from retail traders after the company reported progress regarding AI cost saving in its ...
Duolingo's CEO said that "stopping edgy posts" turned social media sentiment positive, but he said it hurt the company's daily users last quarter.
The company’s big bet on artificial intelligence was controversial, but appears to be paying off as Q2 2025 earnings saw ...
Duolingo shares jump 29% after record Q2 2025 earnings, driven by AI-powered growth and diversification, despite quality ...
Our vision is to make music learning feel just as engaging and habit-forming as language learning does on Duolingo.’ Duolingo ...
Luis von Ahn is the genius behind CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and also the founder and CEO of Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning platform. Born and ...
Von Ahn first presented Duolingo on the Disrupt stage nine years ago, with a website and goal to teach 100 million people a new language. Now, nearly a decade later, he’ll be coming back to ...
— Luis von Ahn (@LuisvonAhn) June 13, 2022 Outside of those milestones, Duolingo’s cofounder and CEO Luis von Ahn took to Twitter to express pride in some of the company’s accomplishments over the ...
Latino inventor Luis von Ahn, co-founder of Duolingo and CAPTCHA, won the Lemelson-MIT prize for products that improve society. The Guatemalan-American inventor uses technology to close the ...
Luis von Ahn, creator of Duolingo and a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. Courtesy of Duolingo When he was 12 years old, Luis von Ahn came up with a plan to make gyms free.