Foundation model developers have made impressive claims about how well their models work in languages other than English. Upon closer examination though, these claims often fall short of their promise ...

Western technology companies have long struggled with offering their services in languages other than English. A combination of political and technical challenges have impeded companies from building ...

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — ...

Large language models are the dynamite behind the generative AI boom. LLMs are black box AI systems that use deep learning on extremely large data sets to understand and generate new text. Modern LLMs ...

In early 2023, Álvaro Soto was looking for Las doce figuras del mundo, a short story co-written by one of his favourite authors, Jorge Luis Borges. To track down the book in which the story was ...

And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models. Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...