Duolingo reported exceeding quarterly revenue estimates despite criticism for prioritizing generative AI over human employees. The company's stock surged by nearly 30%. CEO Luis von Ahn announced a shift to an 'AI-first' model, resulting in the addition of 148 new language courses. Financially, Duolingo anticipates over $1 billion in revenue this year, with a 40% increase in daily active users. However, growth remains at the lower end of projections due to social media backlash related to AI comments and posts.
Without AI, it would take us decades to scale our content to more learners. We owe it to our learners to get them this content ASAP.
The most important thing is we wanted to make the sentiment on our social media positive. We stopped posting edgy posts and started posting things that would get our sentiment more positive.
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