It should be noted that work on this project began in 2018 and took 4 years to complete.
“It is impressive to see how AI is improving all of our services. We just released an AI model we built that can translate into 200 different languages, many of which are not supported by current translation systems. We call this project ‘No Language Left Behind’ and the AI modeling techniques we used enable high-quality translations for languages spoken by billions of people around the world,” said explained Mark Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Meta, in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
To give an idea of the scale of the project, the model for 200 languages has more than 50 billion parameters and we trained it using our new Research SuperCluster, one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world. The progress made here will enable more than 25 billion translations per day in our applications.
“Communication across languages is one of AI’s superpowers, but advancing our work in this area is improving everything we do, from bringing the most interesting content to Facebook and Instagram, to recommend more relevant ads, or to keep our services safe for everyone,” Zuckerberg added in the same context.
Meta is once once more proving its commitment to making artificial intelligence a tool that connects humanity and eradicates all barriers, as this project is one of many to be announced later this year.