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In late April and early May 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said the language-learning app would become "AI-first" and replace contractors with artificial ...
Cheng Xin / Getty Images Duolingo shares hit an all-time high Friday after the language education platform topped first-quarter estimates. The company's revenue, profit, and user numbers all ...
Duolingo is up 49.4% since the beginning of the year, and at $487 per share, has set a new 52-week high. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Duolingo’s shares at the IPO in July 2021 would now ...
Duolingo, a popular platform for learning various languages, announced it will be adding 148 new courses to its arsenal on Wednesday. The new courses were created using generative artificial ...
The gamified, owl-mascoted language learning app Duolingo is completing its "AI-first" pivot — and replacing all its human contractors along the way. In an all-hands email that was later posted ...
Duolingo to Replace Human Contractors With Bots, Become ‘AI-First’ Your email has been sent Duolingo has just validated fears about artificial intelligence taking jobs, announcing it will ...
Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images Morgan Stanley analysts initiated coverage of Duolingo with an "overweight" rating and a $435 price target—the highest on Wall Street. The consensus ...
Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. Anyone who’s taken language ...
He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Duolingo will soon be able to help you learn another new skill: chess. The platform’s new chess course will use short puzzles ...
Duolingo will soon add chess to its list of non-language courses, alongside music and math. The company has revealed that it will add chess lessons to its app, which will initially be available in ...
Duolingo, the world’s most popular learning app, is adding a new subject to its curriculum: Chess. Now in early testing, the Chess course marks the company’s first new subject since launching ...
According to Zaria Parvez, Duolingo’s senior global social media manager, the idea stemmed from the company’s routine biannual app icon updates, typically resulting in a spike in new users.