Duolingo announced the launch of 148 new language courses. These courses were generated using the company's native artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The ed-tech learning platform introduced these new courses just days after the company CEO revealed a shift to an AI-first strategy. The courses were created within a year and they more than double the platform's total offerings. Interestingly, Duolingo is set to implement AI in each and every department of the company, and to replace the contract workers with AI tools in the long run.

Duolingo Introduces New AI-Generated Language Courses

In a newsroom blog, Duolingo announced the release of the 148 language courses, the biggest content rollout in company history. Normally, developing one new course might take several new years. But through the application of generative AI, the site has been able to dramatically speed up the process, the blog noted.

"Taking 12 years to build our initial 100 courses, and now, within a year or so, being able to produce and roll out almost 150 new courses, is an amazing example of how generative AI can serve our learners directly", says Luis von Ahn, CEO and co-founder of Duolingo.

With this content increase, Duolingo's seven most in-demand non-English languages German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, and French are now open to all 28 supported user interface (UI) languages. The company says this increase will open up over a billion possible learners worldwide.

As part of its AI-first strategy, Duolingo's new method of creating courses using generative AI is referred to as 'shared content systems'. The firm basically develops one high-quality base course, which is then tailored for various languages.

The new courses allow the Spanish and Portuguese (Latin America) speakers to learn Japanese, Korean and Mandarin. Similarly, the majority of European language speakers can also learn these Asian languages. And for Asian language speakers, the top seven non-English languages offered on the platform are now open to them. To note, previously they could only access the English language.

Earlier this week, Duolingo CEO went public with an email that was sent to the employees announcing the necessity of switching to an AI-first model. The transition will involve Duolingo's own decrease in hiring contract workers to do work that can be done by AI. The company also intends to include AI skills as a major consideration in hiring and performance reviews to incorporate the use of the technology.

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