Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup’s vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies.

Google has released TranslateGemma, a set of open translation models based on the Gemma 3 architecture, offering 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter variants designed to support machine translation across 55 languages and to run on platforms ranging from mobile and edge devices to consumer hardware and cloud accelerators.

For now, it's available on the desktop for most Workspace users. Look for it on Android and iOS in the coming months, Google says.

OpenAI has officially launched ChatGPT Translate, a dedicated translation feature that positions itself alongside tools like Google Translate and DeepL. For anyone who has been using ChatGPT for translation work over the past couple of years,

After a few years of rumors about the feature, Apple added live translated captions to FaceTime in iOS 26, allowing one-on-one calls to display real-time subtitles spanning languages. Here's where to find live translation in FaceTime,

In recent years, efforts have been made to curb this preference, with AI model developers such as Google and OpenAI creating translation models. Most recently, Google released TranslateGemma on Jan. 15, which was trained in 55 languages and 500 language pairs -- languages that can easily be translated from one to the other.

Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists. Even so, machine translation is still clunky at times ...

'In the coming months'

The new technology, which the police department in Norwalk, Conn., recently launched, “makes things a whole lot easier,” its Chief James Walsh said. The software is an upgrade to officer cameras.