The First Large Language Model Supporting All EU Languages Is Here – slator.com
On September 24, 2024, researchers from Unbabel, the University of Edinburgh, CentraleSupélec, and other partners introduced the EuroLLM project and released its first models — EuroLLM-1.7B and EuroLLM-1.7B-Instruct — as part of an open-weight, open-source suite of large language models (LLMs). In a post on X, Pedro Martins, Senior AI Research Scientist at Unbabel, highlighted […]
Minnesota Picks OpenAI for AI Translation and ‘Real-time Interpretation’ – slator.com
Less than one year after OpenAI started getting momentum as a pure-play machine translation option for enterprises, the world’s most valuable AI startup revealed that it is now providing machine translation at scale for a public institution. Featured as one of currently 47 so-called “stories” on the OpenAI website, Minnesota’s Enterprise Translation Office (ETO) outlined […]
Simon Yoxon-Grant Succeeds Scott W. Klein as CEO of LanguageLine Solutions – slator.com
LanguageLine Solutions (LLS) announced the appointment of Simon Yoxon-Grant as its new president and CEO, effective September 24, 2024. Yoxon-Grant takes over from Scott W. Klein, who led the company for 12 years, and will now stay as the CEO of Teleperformance Specialized Services, also led by Klein in the past five years. Klein’s tenure […]
Reddit Rolls Out AI Translation Broadly After Early Tests Deemed Success, CEO Says – slator.com
Reddit, the online social media platform, has confirmed that it will be launching localized versions of its content into multiple languages over the coming weeks. With 50% of Reddit’s user base located outside of the US, the company had identified localization as a key growth driver to investors earlier in 2024 and launched a machine […]
Sony Adds New Languages to Speech Translation Systems Without Retraining – slator.com
In a September 17, 2024 paper, researchers from Sony and Carnegie Mellon University presented a method that allows speech translation (ST) systems to support more language pairs without the need for expensive and time-consuming retraining on new datasets. Traditionally, ST systems can only translate language pairs they have been specifically trained on, the researchers explained. […]
UK Green-Lights Use of AI in GBP 250M Language Services Tender – slator.com
In a sign of the times, the UK’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has released a call for tender for language services that allows bidders to use artificial intelligence (AI) as part of their offering. The tender — which has an estimated spend of GBP 250m (USD 334m) over a minimum three year period — is […]