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Had a great time chatting with @cherykang this a.m. on Squawk Box Asia! Be sure to tune in if any of the following is interesting to you: - How we became the #1 player in South Korea and Japan and one of the largest consumer AI apps overall - What is stopping us from…
A special bit of silicon valley is that everyone is willing to help each other. Back in 2015, we pinged @karpathy for AI help and (within 2 min!) he offered to meet up w/ us the next day. One of a few formative convos that led to us doing AI research and starting @speak.
🆕 Personalized AI Language Education, with @adhsu, CTO of @Speak! youtube.com/watch?v=tIVKgz… For the first time, Andrew tells the story about building the next generation of AI Language Learning, starting pre-Transformers, getting advice from @karpathy, and why they went bet hard…
Monday morning listen 🎧
🆕 Personalized AI Language Education, with @adhsu, CTO of @Speak! youtube.com/watch?v=tIVKgz… For the first time, Andrew tells the story about building the next generation of AI Language Learning, starting pre-Transformers, getting advice from @karpathy, and why they went bet hard…
Full episode with @adhsu on life as a child prodigy, being one of the first Thiel Fellows and building @speak Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:05 - Started college at twelve 00:05:34 - Homeschooled by immigrant parents 00:08:30 - Three degrees by sixteen 00:19:53 - First…
"In language learning, consumers prefer specialized tools ... because they offer immersive and progressive experiences that today’s general AI assistants simply can’t deliver." 👏🏼
AI is increasingly becoming embedded in consumer life. General AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc) and specialized tools are being used across every category of daily life. AI’s momentum underscores a simple truth: People adopt new solutions when they help do things…
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"I went to South Korea and I saw skyscrapers that were filled with English classrooms. It was very clear the country was obsessed with learning English." - @connorzwick (Co-Founder & CEO @speak) "We thought, the only way we're going to build something interesting is if we…
The day has finally come! @speak is no longer an English language learning app. You can now learn 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷French, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇰🇷Korean, and 🇮🇹Italian as well! And I'm not talking about memorizing vocab in a dopamine machine, I'm talking about good old fashioned spoken…
Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: - @FoundersPodcast (Founders Podcast) - @katie_haun (Haun Ventures) - @venturetwins (a16z) - @connorzwick (Speak) - @TreyHolterman (Tennr) - @thejamescad (Profound) - @_anish_agarwal (Traversal) - @ayushswrites (Warp) - John Lee…
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All of this is made possible by our AI-native technology platform which feels like it's crossing an inflection point right now - things are about to get crazy good. Check out the app at speak.com Apple for a role at speak.com/careers
Our Japanese course is a particularly great showcase for why people find Speak so unique. Normally you'd have to start with months of memorizing characters. But with Speak, you can feel *real* fluency in simple spoken conversations in minutes. It feels magical!
Compared to legacy language learning "games", we're the interactive conversational experience you would imagine in an AI-native world. You wouldn’t expect to learn how to swim without getting in a pool, why would you expect to learn how to converse without having conversations?
The day has finally come! @speak is no longer an English language learning app. You can now learn 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷French, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇰🇷Korean, and 🇮🇹Italian as well! And I'm not talking about memorizing vocab in a dopamine machine, I'm talking about good old fashioned spoken…
French, Italian, Japanese & Korean now on Speak joining English and Spanish. Start speaking with us today. speak.com/blog/new-langu…
Our SF team cheered the @SFGiants on to a win this week during Korean Heritage Night with these epic Jung Hoo Lee jerseys! 🇰🇷
Our CEO @connorzwick sat down with @OpenAI to talk all things AI and language learning. Read the full conversation to learn more about why reasoning is the next leap for AI tutors & more! openai.com/index/speak-co…
