No Language Left Behind
Last Updated on July 26, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
Translating 200 languages with a single model — Meta AI

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Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
GPT-3 and other language models are really cool. They can be used to understand pieces of text, summarize them, transcript videos, create text-to-speech applications, and more, but all have a shared big problem: they only work well in English. This language barrier hurts billions of people willing to share and exchange with others without being able to.
Once again, AI can be used for that, too. Meta AI’s most recent model, called “” does exactly that: translates across 200… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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