Meta AI open-sources NLLB-200 model that translates 200 languages

Meta AI open-sources NLLB-200 model that translates 200 languages(ai.facebook.com)

77 points by jkw 3 years ago | 10 comments

mdaniel 3 years ago |

(a) it does not appear to be "open source" for any such definition (b) the paragraph that seems to be actionable has no hyperlinks for ether word "here"

> You can explore a demo of NLLB-200 here, showing how the model can translate stories from around the world, and read the research paper here.

charcircuit 3 years ago | |

>it does not appear to be "open source" for any such definition

The code for it is licensed under MIT and the pretrained model was released under CC-BY-NC 4.0.

code51 3 years ago | |

Here you go: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/nllb

solarkraft 3 years ago |

That's nice. Translation is one of those fields that, besides maybe LibreTranslate, free software was always quite far behind on.

Tangent: Why does free software generally lack machine learning features? Is the expertise just not there or is it rather the cultural stigma of "evil black-boxes"?

pagekicker 3 years ago |

Trying to figure out the most expedient way to set it up and test it. Anyone have any ideas?

whitten 3 years ago | |

Perhaps a docker container?

If you set one up, I would like to know how it should be done

pineaux 3 years ago |

Is there a place where I can test this online?

mdaniel 3 years ago | |

Their more "marketing" page <https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/new-meta-ai-model-translat...> linked to a "try it here": https://nllb.metademolab.com/

tim-- 3 years ago | |

You can test it over at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation

daedalus2027 3 years ago |

I can not help but wonder if it can translate any non previously seen language like protoindoeuropean.