Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a monolingual artificial intelligence (AI) model to support it. “The 1000 most common languages ​​in the world”Verge reports.

As a first step towards this goal, the company offers an AI model trained in more than 400 languages. “The broadest language coverage that can be seen in a language model today”.

Google’s initiative does not focus on any specific functionality, but aims to create a single system with a large amount of information from all the languages ​​​​of the world.

Zubin Ghahramani, vice president of AI research at Google, said in an interview with The Verge that the company believes building a model of this size will make it easier to implement various AI functions in languages ​​that are underrepresented in the online space. and AI training databases.

“By having a model exposed and trained in many different languages, we achieve much higher performance in our low-resource languages”– says Gahramani. “The way to 1000 languages ​​is not to create 1000 different models. Languages ​​are like organisms, they evolved separately from each other and have some similarities”.