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Rapid Response: Duolingo’s battle for learning in an AI world, with Luis von Ahn

aired Jun 01, 2026 · 33.0m
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Summary

The future of AI is not built in isolation. It is shaped in rooms where ambitious people challenge each other.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of people, like, know, including: It is shaped in rooms where ambitious people challenge each other.

Key takeaways
  1. 01If you're building what comes next, you should be in this room
  2. 02And then you launched Duolingo, which is this sort of playful but pragmatic language learning system that really took off
  3. 03With tooling, we've chosen mainly fun
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