Landscape Analysis: Neural Machine Translation

The Big 3, when it comes to neural machine translation (NMT), are Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Among this group, Google is the most dominant in terms of supporting 109 languages compared to Microsoft's 73, and Amazon's 55. Overall, Google is flush with talent, data, and resources, and they leverage those assets to maintain their dominant position. With that said, Google Translate is a tool that businesses like Native can license in order to leverage best-in-class technology. In this sense, Google is currently a key partner and will only become a competitor when Native builds out its own neural translation engine.