Tag: Meta
The Week in Review: August 25, 2023
Meta made quite a splash this week with the announcement of SeamlessM4T — a multimodal translation tool that allows users to undergo speech-to-speech translation...
Meta researchers share Llama 2, a safer, open-source large language model
The number of publicly available LLMs has skyrocketed in recent months, as developers rush to get their piece of the pie. PaLM, GPT-4, Claude, and now Llama 2.
Bringing 200 languages to ModernMT: A Q&A with Translated’s Marco Trombetti
MultiLingual recently caught up with the company’s CEO, Marco Trombetti, to learn a little bit more about what it took to increase the number of languages offered on ModernMT by nearly four times what it previously was.
Can AI translate an unwritten language? Meta thinks so.
Currently, Meta’s speech-to-speech translator only allows users to translate one sentence at a time, however the company stated that its progress in other unsupervised learning projects could help refine the technology.
UIUC partners with tech companies to improve speech recognition for individuals...
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple may have competing interests, but they’ve recently found one thing to work together on: All five of these big tech companies have joined forces to support the Speech Accessibility Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Meta fails to localize Horizon Worlds before launching in Spain and...
Meta received some harsh words from frustrated Spanish speakers after a shaky international rollout of its game Horizon Worlds.
BigScience launches open-source LLM, BLOOM
In developing BLOOM, the BigScience team set out to create an LLM that’s more accessible than any other major model to date. Unlike other LLMs, BLOOM is available to pretty much any individual or institution.
Meta reaches 200-language milestone in No Language Left Behind initiative
The announcement comes just a few months after the company announced that it would begin a project to develop a machine translation (MT) tool that can translate the majority of the world’s 7,000 or so languages.
Meta gives researchers full access to its large language model, OPT-175B
Unlike many other large language models, OPT-175B will be available for free to all researchers or institutions that request access. The company notes that this effort is an attempt to “democratize” large language models, which will allow for further research into the models’ potential benefits — and dangers — to society.
Meta announces new real-time translation projects
The ambitious aim is to create real-time translation technologies that include everyone in the world by teaching AI to translate hundreds of spoken and written languages.
Facebook goes “meta,” internet has a field day
Meanwhile, Portuguese-speaking internet users got to have a laugh over the fact that “meta” is the imperative form of a verb with the colloquial meaning “to have intercourse.”