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Meta Open-Sources 200 Language Translation AI NLLB-200
Meta AI recently open-sourced NLLB-200, an AI model that can translate between any of over 200 languages. NLB-200 is a 54.5B parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model that was trained on a dataset containing more than 18 billion sentence pairs. On benchmark evaluations, NLLB-200 outperforms other state-of-the-art models by up to 44%.
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Google Document Translation Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Document Translation, a new feature of Translation API Advanced that allows formatting of documents to be retained throughout the translation process.
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Microsoft Translator Now Supports over 100 Languages and Dialects
Microsoft Translator is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered text translation service on Azure and part of the cognitive services offering. Recently, the company announced that 12 new languages and dialects have been added to the service, meaning that it can now translate between more than 100 languages and dialects.
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Microsoft Achieves Human Parity on Chinese-English Machine Translation
Microsoft created a translation algorithm that translates Chinese sentences to English as well as human translators do. Translating Chinese sentences into English has been difficult in the past. Thanks to neural machine translation, a technique that created amazing results in the last couple of years, Microsoft got their machine translated sentences on par with human translated sentences.
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Microsoft Improves Delivery of Language Translation with New Dedicated Hub for Developers
Microsoft has created a new set of tools for incorporating instantaneous language translating capabilities into mobile apps.With the new Translator Hub developers gain a supple Application Programming Interface (API) for customizing Windows Phone and other operating systems to translate up to 39 languages in their unique apps. The service is on sale now to developers or it can be sampled for free.
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.NET Extension Methods For Microsoft Translator API
Microsoft Translator API exposes Translation services for developers using REST-based and SOAP based end-points. An open source project, Bing (Microsoft) Translator .NET, creates a wrapper around these APIs by using extension methods, making it much easier to build .NET applications that can use translation.