Meta’s new open-source AI takes step towards a universal language translator

Meta has taken another step towards creating a universal language translator. The company has open-sourced an AI model that translates over 200 languages — many of which aren’t supported by existing systems. The research is part of a Meta initiative launched earlier this year. “We call this project No Language Left Behind, and the AI modeling techniques we used from NLLB are helping us make high quality translations on Facebook and Instagram for languages spoken by billions of people around the world,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. NLLB focuses on lower-resource languages, such as Maori or…

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