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Babbel co-founder Markus Witte will once again run the company, replacing CEO Arne Schepker
Arne Schepker, the CEO of the popular Berlin-based language learning platform Babbel, is stepping down, and the company's co-founder and former CEO Markus
Witte told me that he believes as technology is changing, AI can now play a more direct role in helping people learn a new language. Babbel already used machine learning under the hood, but it never billed itself as an “AI company.” Instead, it always put an emphasis on the teachers and experts it worked with to create its courses (in no small part to differentiate from competitors like Duolingo). In addition to navigating the change brought upon by AI, Witte also noted that he wants to focus on creating more “moments of delight,” for the company’s employees and users.
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