Explained | Google’s 1,000 language AI model

While many other existing AI language models are deployed for business or research, Google’s 1,000 languages initiative aims to improve AI language models as a whole for diverse use cases

The story so far: Large tech firms are competing to develop and implement AI-based language models. Google is developing a model that can support the 1,000 most spoken languages of the world, the company revealed at its AI event this month. To investigate the potential of such a vast project, Google is also working on an AI language model which can support around 400 languages. The company claimed this model had the “largest language coverage” among existing speech models.

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However, bringing these models into daily use raises questions about their potential use cases and their founding aims.

Google doesn’t have a specific use case for the language model. However, the end goal is to enable Google users to experience better searches, more accurate auto-generated captions, natural online translation, and faster calculations, according to a report by The Verge, a tech outlet.

The project is under development and researchers are now collecting linguistic data to train the model.

While many other existing AI language models are deployed for business or research, Google’s 1,000 languages initiative aims to improve AI language models as a whole for diverse use cases.

Google’s plan is to build one gigantic model for the 1,000 languages so that both widely used and rarer languages can co-exist, interact, and grow together.