Introducing the First AI Model That Translates 100 Languages Without Relying on English

Next, we introduced a new bridge mining strategy, in which we group languages into 14 language groups based on linguistic classification, geography, and cultural similarities. People living in countries with languages of the same family tend to communicate more often and would benefit from high-quality translations. For instance, one group would include languages spoken in India, like Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Tamil, and Urdu. To connect the languages of different groups, we identified a small number of bridge languages, which are usually one to three major languages of each group. In the example above, Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil would be bridge languages for Indo-Aryan languages.