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Facebook's AI model can translate 100 languages without relying on English

Facebook on Monday introduced the first open-source multi-lingual machine translation model M2M-100 that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English data. Typical translation systems require building separate AI models for each language and task, but this approach doesn’t scale effectively on Facebook, where people post content in more than 160 languages across billions of posts. Facebook used novel mining strategies to create translation data, building a data set with 7.5 billion sentences for 100 languages. For years, AI researchers have been working toward building a single universal model that can understand all languages across different tasks.

The Hindu

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