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

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	Meta AI open-sources NLLB-200 model that translates 200 languages (ai.facebook.com)
	77 points by jkw 1448 days ago

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mdaniel 1448 days 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.

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charcircuit 1448 days 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.

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code51 1448 days ago

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

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solarkraft 1448 days 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"?

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pagekicker 1448 days ago

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

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whitten 1448 days ago

Perhaps a docker container?

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

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pineaux 1448 days ago

Is there a place where I can test this online?

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mdaniel 1448 days ago