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The backlash against Duolingo going ‘AI-first’ didn’t even matter
Duolingo faced significant backlash for announcing that it would become an "AI-first" company -- and yet, the app posted strong financials this quarter.
Duolingo announced on Wednesday that it beat its quarterly revenue estimates, even though the company faced widespread backlash for choosing to embrace generative AI over human workers. In April, CEO Luis von Ahn shared that Duolingo would become an “AI-first” company, phasing out its use of contract workers. The growth is significant, but falls in the lower range of the company’s estimates of growing between 40-45%, which an investor brought up to von Ahn on Wednesday’s quarterly earnings call..
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