During an Inside the Lab: Building for the metaverse with AI livestream event on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't just expound on his company's unblinking vision for the future, dubbed the ...

Universal translators were once a science fiction dream, appearing in shows like "Star Trek" as devices capable of translating any language into English. Now, new advancements in AI have made it ...

Meta has taken another step towards creating a universal language translator. The company has open-sourced an AI model that translates over 200 languages — many of which aren’t supported by existing ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

When you think of tools infused with artificial intelligence (AI) these days, it’s natural for ChatGPT and Bing Chat to spring to mind. But Facebook owner Meta wants to change that with SeamlessM4T, ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Meta, the owner of ...

On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a neural network that can process both text and audio, it can perform text-to-speech, speech-to-text, ...

Amazon (AMZN) wants to make Alexa, the popular voice-enabled assistant, a context-savvy, real-time universal language translator, Yahoo Finance has learned. According to several sources familiar with ...

As the pandemic at long last winds down, international travel is picking up, with millions looking to make up for lost time. As travelers explore foreign lands, tools like Google’s Neural Machine ...

A universal translator akin to the Babel Fish from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” might soon be possible. It’s all thanks to Meta Platforms Inc.’s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research ...

I have to wonder sometimes if there’s a limit to where Google will go. I can’t deny that I’m often cheering them on as they gobble up companies, scan every book ever published and apparently turn a ...