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Google Translate gets 110 new languages with AI's help, bringing the total to 243

Thanks to Google's PaLM 2 AI model, the number of new languages has almost doubled.

In Google's biggest expansion of African languages, the new additions will cover Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda, and Wolof. Manx is a Celtic language spoken in the Isle of Man that almost died out in 1974, but has since been revived, with thousands of people now fluent in it. To handle demanding translations, Google turned to AI, specifically its AI-powered PaLM 2 LLM (large language model).

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