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Meta’s open-source AI model leaves no language behind

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2022-07-06 19:30:10

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With every innovation, social metaverse company, Meta, inches closer to fulfilling its mission to “give people the power to build community and bring the world together.” Today, the company announced a research breakthrough in its No Language Left Behind (NLLB) project designed to develop high-quality machine translation capabilities for most of the world’s languages.

In Meta’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s words, “We just open-sourced an AI model we built that can translate across 200 different languages — many of which aren’t supported by current translation systems. We call this project No Language Left Behind, and the AI modeling techniques we used are helping make high quality translations for languages spoken by billions of people around the world.”

With a worldwide digital population of over five billion people speaking 7,151 languages, it’s no wonder modern translation systems are in high demand. However, the dearth of linguistic data limits the reach of translation technologies attempting to bridge linguistic barriers in the consumption of digital content. Despite the sophistication of Google’s multilingual neural machine translation offering, Google Translate, its translation capabilities are limited to 133 languages.

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