Meet Tradutor, the First Open-Source AI Translation Model for European Portuguese – slator.com

Machine translation (MT) models often struggle with linguistic diversity, favoring dominant dialects and leaving many language varieties underserved. In a February 20, 2025 paper, researchers from the University of Porto, INESC TEC, Heidelberg University, University of Beira Interior, and Ci2 – Smart Cities Research Center introduced Tradutor, the first open-source AI translation model specifically tailored […]

Xiaomi’s Training Recipe for Better Multilingual AI Translation – slator.com

In a February 7, 2025 paper, researchers from Chinese tech company Xiaomi benchmarked the capabilities of open-source large language models (LLMs) with under ten billion parameters for multilingual machine translation (MT) tasks. They proposed the “best data recipe” to enhance AI translation performance. The researchers explained that open-source LLMs have shown improvements in multilingual capabilities, […]