Google plans to develop AI model supporting 1,000 most spoken languages

Tech giant Google has announced an ambitious new project to build a single AI language model that supports the world’s 1,000 most spoken languages.

According to The Verge, as a first step toward this goal, the company is unveiling an AI model trained on over 400 languages, which it calls “the largest language coverage seen in a speech model today.”

“The company believes that creating a model of this size will make it easier to bring various AI functionalities to languages that are poorly represented in online spaces and AI training datasets (also known as “low-resource languages),” Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president of research at Google AI was quoted as saying.