Google Takes Aim at Duolingo With AI Tools To Help You Learn New Languages

Google is debuting three new AI experiments that are intended to help users learn foreign languages on the go. The tools utilize Google's Gemini large language model to identify objects and situations in a user's immediate environment and provide translations that could help users ask for help or spark a conversation. II you want to give the new experiments a try, you can find them on the Google Labs webpage. Google experiments aren't applications -- which means you don't have to download anything to get started. You can just click into the experiment you want to try and begin typing in your prompts. Read more: Best AI Chatbots of 2025 In debuting these new features, Google is going head-to-head with other foreign language-learning services that are also focusing on AI tools. Duolingo's CEO recently announced that the company "will be going AI-first," and OpenAI's ChatGPT has the ability to begin new foreign-language conversations at any time upon request. Tiny Lesson: Describe a s ... Read full article.