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Buddy.ai is using AI and gaming to help children learn English as a second language


Buddy.ai wants to help children learn by using an AI character as a means to be able to practice whenever they want.

In 2014, Ivan Crewkov moved his family from Serbia to the U.S. as his startup, Cubic.AI, was preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign for its smart speaker. A week before the campaign was supposed to go live, Amazon launched its Echo smart speaker, rendering Cubic.AI essentially dead in the water. Moving his family from Serbia to the U.S. meant putting his daughters, used to speaking Russian at home, into English-speaking schools.

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