Luis von Ahn

Luis von Ahn

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Luis von Ahn is a prominent Guatemalan-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, recognized for his innovative work in human computation and online learning. He is the co-founder of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform, and was instrumental in developing the concept of Captchas, which transformed into the ReCaptcha system for digitizing books and improving machine learning.

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Luis von Ahn is the founder of Duolingo.

AI doesn’t make it better
The Globe and Mail·CanadaCanada· 2026-03-07
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Luis von Ahn is the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, who stated that AI has significantly increased employee productivity.

এআই ব্যবহারে কর্মীদের উৎপাদনশীলতা বেড়েছে চার থেকে পাঁচ গুণ: ডুয়োলিঙ্গো সিইও
Prothom Alo·BangladeshBangladesh· 2025-09-23
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Luis Von Ahn, the Guatemalan multimillionaire who founded CAPTCHA and the language platform Duolingo, expressed concerns about the lack of AI training in Latin America.

Alarmante atraso da América Latina no campo da inteligência artificial é a principal ameaça à região
O Estado de S. Paulo (Estadão)·LiechtensteinLiechtenstein· 2025-07-18
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Luis von Ahn, the Guatemalan billionaire who founded Captcha and Duolingo, comments on the lack of AI development in Latin America.

El alarmante atraso de América Latina en inteligencia artificial, por Andrés Oppenheimer | OPINION
El Comercio·PeruPeru· 2025-07-13
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Luis von Ahn is the CEO of Duolingo who has explored the topic of AI implementation in the company.

'No sé exactamente qué va a pasar'
El Tiempo·ColombiaColombia· 2025-05-28
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CEO Duolingo Luis von Ahn mentioned that they will gradually shift to using AI instead of contract employees.

Lập trình viên bị ảnh hưởng nhất trong đợt sa thải của Microsoft
VnExpress – leading Vietnamese online newspaper, est. 2001·VietnamVietnam· 2025-05-16
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Luis von Ahn is the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, who announced the company's shift towards AI to replace contract workers.

Duolingo sostituirà i lavoratori a contratto con l'Intelligenza artificiale
Corriere della Sera·ItalyItaly· 2025-05-04
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Luis von Ahn is the CEO of Duolingo and announced plans to gradually replace contract workers with AI.

CEO Microsoft: AI đảm nhiệm 30% việc viết mã lập trình
VnExpress – leading Vietnamese online newspaper, est. 2001·VietnamVietnam· 2025-05-01
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Luis von Ahn co-founded the language-learning app Duolingo and contributed to the development of Captchas.

Warum es immer schwieriger wird, das zu beweisen
Neue Zürcher Zeitung·SwitzerlandSwitzerland· 2025-04-03
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