Earlier this year, in April, Duullingo co-founder and CEO Louis von Ahon announced that the company would infection in the “AI-first” operating model. He said that Duoolingo will gradually reduce its dependence on contractors for manual work and will use AI more instead. However, the announcement quickly feared that the Artificial Intelligence Company could erase full -time jobs. Months later, von ego is now rejecting AI’s idea, saying that the plan is not about trimming, but about using technology to promote productivity.

Speaking in an interview with The New York Times recently, von Ego admitted that his April Mamo was misunderstood outside the company, announcing the axis of Duoolingo towards AI. The memorandum only underlined the policy of hiring when the manager could prove that a role could not be automated, and the contract for the work could be a gradual decrease in the work staff “that AI could,”. Many, however, according to him, interpreted it as a sign of a broad job cut.

“It was on me. I did not give enough reference,” Von Ahan said. “We have never closed any full -time employees. We do not plan.” He insisted that the changes associated with the AI shift of Duullingo mainly affect the contractors, whose number is always upset according to the demand.

Von Ego also underlined that AI was not replacing employees in Duoolingo, but is re -shaping their way of working. “Perhaps what will happen that a person will be able to complete more rather than being less people,” he explained. He said that the tasks which took a time of years can now be completed in weeks with the help of big language models.

Pittsburgh -based company, which became public in 2021, currently employs over 1,000 people and reported 130 million monthly active users in late June. Despite the change towards AI, von Ego says that the headcono of Duoolingo remains stable, with the new higher and about 50 summer interns are still joining the workforce.

The AHN notes that Duolingo has used automation since its launch in 2011. But the arrival of advanced language models in the last two years has intensified those efforts. These models can follow the interaction in ways that are particularly useful for learners, according to von ego. To ensure the shift-friendly to the employees, he revealed that Duoolingo has introduced “fry-days” which is a weekly session where Duoolingo encourages his employees to experiment with AI equipment and find out how they can make their work more efficient. Von Ahan said that the aim of the new strategy is to help its employees see AI as a colleague rather than a threat.