This podcast episode explores whether popular language learning apps can truly lead to fluency. Through examples, personal ...

UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and ...

Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical ...

Language learning has traditionally followed a one-size-fits-all approach—static syllabi, fixed lesson progressions, and ...

Mistral's open-source speech model Voxtral can recognize multiple languages, understand spoken instructions and also offer enterprise security.

LEAP takes a local-first approach that allows small models to run directly on-device, no cloud infrastructure.

Multi-modal prompt learning is a high-performance and cost-effective learning paradigm, which learns text as well as image prompts to tune pre-trained vision-language (V-L) models like CLIP for ...

With the notable success of pretrained language models, the pretraining-fine-tuning paradigm has become a dominant solution for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks. Typically, the training ...

For more on Duolingo, here's how well the free version of the app prepared me for a trip to Italy and our review of the language learning app. You can also check out our best language learning apps.