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Google Translate just nearly doubled its number of supported languages

✇Ars Technica
Samuel Axon
The Google PaLM 2 logo.

Enlarge / The logo for PaLM 2, a Google large language model. (credit: Google)

Google announced today that it has added support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, nearly doubling the number of languages that can be translated.

The company used the PaLM 2 large language model to facilitate these additions.

In a blog post, Google Senior Software Engineer Isaac Caswell claimed that the newly added languages are spoken by more than 614 million people, or about 8 percent of the global population.

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From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.

✇NYT: Technology
Oliver Whang
Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?

© Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

For an hour each week for the past 11 months, Brenden Lake, right, a psychologist at New York University, with his wife Tammy Kwan, has been attaching a camera to their daughter Luna and recording things from her point of view.
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