65 …Tech Incumbent AI Focus = Talking-the-Talk… Note: On 3/28/25, Elon Musk announced that xAI had acquired X in an all-stock deal. The deal valued xAI at $80B and X at $33B ($45B less $12B debt). Source: Duolingo (5/1/25), DeepMind, Elon Musk (5/2/25), Fox News There’s three places where [GenAI is]…helping us: data creation…creating new features that were just not possible… efficiencies everywhere in the company… …I should mention something amazing about [the new Duolingo curriculum in] chess is that it really started with a team of two people, neither of whom knew how to program…and they basically made prototypes and did the whole curriculum of chess by just using AI. Also, neither of them knew how to play chess. - Duolingo Co-Founder & CEO Luis von Ahn @ Q1:25 Earnings Call – 5/25 AI with Grok is getting very good…it’s important that AI be programmed with good values, especially truth-seeking values. This is, I think, essential for AI safety… …Remember these words: We must have a maximally truth-seeking AI. - xAI Founder & CEO Elon Musk – 5/25 AI Going Full-Circle: DeepMind’s AlphaGo (2014) started with humans training machines…Duolingo Chess now has machines training humans… Tech Incumbent AI Adoption = Top Priority