Google NMT for Next 1000 Languages
Google ... to create NMT for next 1000 languages w/o labels - ai.googleblog.com/2022/05…ate.html
Unlike similar papers from FAIR that I saw, at least in principle, their approach is kind of simple and engineering driven.
Most likely the key omitted detail is huge / infrastructure compute used.
I wonder why such sudden interest to these particular regions ... India / Africa / Asia