Founded by former Thiel fellows, AI language tutoring app Speak started its journey in Seoul, South Korea. But as it enters the U.S. market, it’ll have to compete with better-known rivals like ...

Imagine a world where learning feels less like a chore and more like an exciting adventure tailored just for you. By building your very own personal tutor using OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT artificial ...

AI language tutor startup Speak has raised $78M in a new funding round, at a $1B valuation. The Series C round was led by Accel with support from existing investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund, ...

San Diego researchers received a grant from the State of California to improve and expand a bespoke AI tutor, stemming from a prototype developed at UC San Diego. Here two students use a pilot version ...

Many legacy platforms built their reputation on streaks, badges, and gamified practice, a formula that made language learning accessible but often left learners strong on recognition but weaker on ...

In 2014, Ivan Crewkov moved his family from Siberia 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 ...

Sitting in Duo’s Taqueria, a dimly-lit upscale Mexican restaurant in Pittsburgh, Luis von Ahn contemplates the end of work as we know it. In between bites of al pastor tacos and sips of a margarita, ...

Google’s experiment attempts to solve this problem using AI to help personalize language learning. “Learning a new spoken language… often happens in a vacuum—through textbooks or exercises that feel ...

While the AI landscape continues to expand, OSpark.ai is positioned as a practical response to tool fragmentation and rising ...

When Duolingo launched in 2012, the language-learning app became the poster child of gamification. The app is shameless and magnificent in its efforts to get users hooked on lessons with streaks, ...