Pingo AI

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AI companion that helps you learn languages

Summer 2025Founded 20254 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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About

Pingo AI is an AI language learning app that helps users build fluency through speaking. It immerses learners in realistic dialogues and personalized lessons with an AI tutor who sounds like a native speaker. Our goal is to make learning languages as simple as daily conversations with Pingo — a companion who understands your goals, remembers your progress, and keeps you motivated.

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Pingo AI is an AI-powered language learning app that serves as a speaking tutor, offering personalized lessons, real conversations, and immediate feedback to help users become fluent. It emphasizes speaking from day one with an AI that adapts to the learner's level across multiple languages.

The product provides AI-driven speaking practice in real-life conversation scenarios across many languages, with lessons that start from basic dialogues and expand to travel, work, and social contexts. After each conversation, users receive instant actionable feedback to improve pronunciation, accuracy, and fluency. The platform includes a library of 200+ conversation lessons and supports custom lessons and scenarios, enabling practice with transcripts and adjustable pacing to reinforce learning. The AI tutor is designed to feel like a native speaker and adapts to the learner’s level, offering personalized lessons and vocabulary practice within real conversations.

Who it’s for: Language learners seeking speaking practice and real-time feedback across multiple languages, from beginners to intermediate, who want to build confidence in real-life conversations.

Features

AI-driven real conversations for practice
Instant actionable feedback after each conversation
Personalized lessons tailored to goals
Library of 200+ conversation lessons
Custom lessons and scenarios with transcripts
Native-speaker-like AI tutor that adapts to level
Practice across travel, work, social, and everyday contexts

Hiring/Careers visible on site; testimonials and user growth mention (3,000,000+ users) indicating traction

Founders · 2

Michael XingFounder

Co-founder and CEO at Pingo AI. Previously built consumer products used by hundreds of thousands of users.

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Morrie SchonfeldFounder

Co-founder and COO at Pingo AI. Published Chinese author with 7+ years of language learning experience. Leads growth at Pingo.

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Aug 2025

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Learn a language by speaking with Pingo

Pingo AI is an AI-powered language learning app that enables real-life conversation practice with an AI tutor, aiming to build fluency through immersive, guided, real-time corrections. The launch highlights 300K+ users and $200K MRR with ongoing growth since January.