Zan Gilani

product @Duolingo since 2015 | working on gen ai x education

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

Royal Jellies #5 features Aya Demler (Daydream) on Donabes, Josef Albers, adult field trips and more https://t.co/GhaySW17NA

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

i started a substack - royal jellies - to share the broad taste of (mostly) thoughtful people in (mostly) tech, media and academia.

unavoidably, the first edition features me - read it here https://t.co/Hz8ZOvzWrH

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

@raiza_abubakar and would love to talk shop with you if you're game. we have a bunch of surprising learnings from Video Call

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

@raiza_abubakar ooh check out Video Call, it's my team at Duolingo's take on a convo AI that helps you master speaking a foreign language https://t.co/n5EokhBCKJ

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

we have a ton of learnings building Video Call—i hope to share them in the future!

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

thrilled to announce Video Call: the conversational AI that my team and I at @duolingo have built.

i got to talk about it at Duocon this year: https://t.co/3RXbjh5BKz

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

and so making this fun and motivating is a core product goal e.g. it's why we chose Lily (and not someone more pleasant), why calls are bite-sized, and even why we don't show your speech transcriptions

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

and i'm hosting this dinner for education x games x AI: https://t.co/8IwFc4MYVe 🎉

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

👀 Big news! The official calendar of events for #NYTechWeek is now LIVE, and we are so excited to announce that this is officially our largest Tech Week EVER!

- 500+ events hosted by VCs & startups 🤯
- June 3-9 2024

🗽 Want the complete list of events? Register here for access: https://t.co/Wtl41sKOj4

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

@Altimor i'd love access! thanks

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

new google maps colorway just dropped i'm into it

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

It was a lot of fun doing this podcast! And the folks running it are very good-natured

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

On the new Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Duolingo’s Zan Gilani shares how AI personalizes the language app and motivates users.
▶️ https://t.co/KFhBNCUzpm

[Felix Lee @felixleezd]

World's best gamified design.

Duolingo’s breaking gamification built the world's biggest education app with 61 Million users.

Here's why Duolingo's gamified design is GENIUS - how they did it:

[Edwin Bodge @edwin_bodge]

Excited we can *finally* announce the latest and greatest way to learn a language: Duolingo Max

My team has shipped at an insane pace to bring Max to life in just a few months.

We've had early access to GPT-4 and worked extremely closely with @OpenAI.

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

@jiangelaa @duolingo @OpenAI also see more here: https://t.co/0VNkpw5XF3

[Duolingo @duolingo]

AI and education make a good duo.

Introducing Duolingo Max. A subscription tier above Super that gives you access to your own personal, AI-powered language tutor through Explain My Answer and Roleplay, two features developed with the latest @OpenAI technology.

details in 🧵

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

so so proud to have worked with @jiangelaa (and others) to make this @duolingo x @OpenAI GPT-4 partnership happen.

never been more inspired to work on improving education ☀️ https://t.co/XhDavVnTKn

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

there is somehow always a new use case for captchas, this time for gen AI images

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

also, lol

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

https://t.co/PPzEuCQrRE turns out there are still a bunch of persian loanwords used by hui chinese today

[Zan Gilani @zan_g]

also i have never even seen a pomegranate soda irl and am deeply intrigued https://t.co/NOnwMKzuZj