Are they using this for google translate yet. As https://www.deepl.com/en/translator is better than google translate currently.
Although for translating forums on a website etc I think netflix method would be better I hope google adopts it for its translate app
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11197
Highly unlikely at the moment. But clearly that is the direction in which translation is going, so companies lacking the economies of scale that come with owning massive computational infrastructure will be at a serious disadvantage.
Google Translate's last major update was in May. They still use more restricted model sizes than the top-end research, but the techniques are making their way into the product.