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Duolingo's CEO Von Ahn innovates with GPT-4, boosting language-learning features for 31 million users, as the company plans expansion.
In some ways, Luis von Ahn is an unlikely founder for a language-learning company: The entrepreneur dreamed of being a math professor from a young age. But after he invented the now-ubiquitous ...
The founder and chief executive of language learning app Duolingo today urged the UK to do more to welcome high-skilled migrants. Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn told the Standard: “It just makes no ...
Luis von Ahn, an entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to scaling free education, has probably annoyed you more than once. In fact, you’ve likely been ...
Before Luis von Ahn co-founded Duolingo, a gamified language-learning app used by hundreds of millions around the world, he was fixated on squiggly ...
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn spoke to the Financial Times about an important leadership lesson he learned early in his career and discussed the strategy he uses to turn "lazy" employees into truly ...
Computer programmer Luis von Ahn answers listener's questions about the potential of crowdsourcing.
Von Ahn was proposing that much of this could be outsourced to your everyday person, if only it were made a little fun. The program launched in 2005 as The ESP Game.
Von Ahn watched the work on CAPTCHA and decided it had potential beyond distinguishing humans from robots — the extra 10 seconds people were taking to access their email and other accounts could ...
Von Ahn was proposing that much of this could be outsourced to your everyday person, if only it were made a little fun. The program launched in 2005 as The ESP Game. Within four months it had lured 13 ...
ONLY a few weeks into graduate school and aged just 22, Luis von Ahn helped crack one of the thorniest problems bedevilling the web. It was the year 2000 and free, web-based e-mail services were ...