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 Nvidia.
00:00 Luis von Ahn Joins
00:20 How Duolingo Reaccelerated Growth
01:04 The Gap Between Users and Subscribers
01:56 How Duolingo Plans to Lift Revenue
02:41 Cutting AI Costs With Open Models
04:35 Open Models Everywhere
05:20 Advice for Other CEOs
06:06 Can AI Replace Duolingo?
06:33 A Motivation Machine
08:15 The Owl Effect
09:44 Jensen Huang’s Exit
10:20 AI and Productivity
#duolingo #ai #languagelearning
==
AlphaSpace by Yahoo Finance: A Professional-Grade Investment Platform Built for Everyday Investors.
👉 https://finance.yahoo.com/about/promos/gold/alphaspace?ncid=100003571
