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

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With each innovation, social metaverse company, Meta, gets closer to fulfilling its mission to "empower people to create community and bring the world together." Today, the company announced a breakthrough under its No Language Left Behind (NLLB) project designed to develop high-quality machine translation capabilities for most of the world's languages.

In the words of Meta Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerburg: "We just open sourced an AI model that we created that can translate into 200 different languages, many of which are not supported. supported by today's translation systems. We call this project No Language Left Behind, and the AI ​​modeling techniques we used enable high-quality translations for languages ​​spoken by billions of people around the world. ."

More languages, less communication

With a global digital population of over five billion people speaking 7,151 languages, it's no wonder modern translation systems are in high demand. However, the lack of linguistic data limits the reach of translation technologies that attempt to overcome language 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.

Microsoft Bing Translator, another translation tool from one of the biggest tech companies in the world, handles just over 100 languages. Considering that more than half of the world's population speaks only 23 of the 7,151 highly common global languages ​​on the Internet, many low-resource languages ​​(especially in Africa and Asia) are not supported in these systems. This indicates a stunted interactive flow between speakers of these languages ​​and the content they wish to consume.

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