The State of Multilingual AI
Models that allow interaction via natural language have become ubiquitious. Research models such as BERT and T5 have become much more accessible while the latest generation of language and multi-modal models are demonstrating increasingly powerful capabilities. At the same time, a wave of NLP startups has started to put this technology to practical use.
While such language technology may be hugely impactful, recent models have mostly focused on English and a handful of other languages with large amounts of resources. Developing models that work for more languages is important in order to offset the existing language divide and to ensure that