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Title: Duolingo Doubles Its Language Courses Thanks To AI

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/30/238254/du...

Just a day after announcing its shift to an "AI-first" strategy -- which
includes phasing out contract workers in favor of automation -- Duolingo
revealed it is more than doubling its course offerings by launching 148 new
language courses. The Verge reports: The company said today that it's
launching 148 new language courses. "This launch makes Duolingo's seven most
popular non-English languages -- Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, and Mandarin -- available to all 28 supported user interface (UI)
languages, dramatically expanding learning options for over a billion
potential learners worldwide," the company writes. Duolingo says that
building one new course historically has taken "years," but the company was
able to build this new suite of courses more quickly "through advances in
generative AI, shared content systems, and internal tooling." The new
approach is internally called "shared content," and the company says it
allows employees to make a base course and quickly customize it for "dozens"
of different languages. "Now, by using generative AI to create and validate
content, we're able to focus our expertise where it's most impactful,
ensuring every course meets Duolingo's rigorous quality standards,"
Duolingo's senior director of learning design, Jessie Becker, says in a
statement.

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