An elder speaks into a microphone somewhere in a New Zealand recording studio. The words are Māori, or te reo,…
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Last winter, a software engineer typed a sentence into a chatbot in a small Lahore office that was half in…
A civil servant is squinting at a forty-page policy document somewhere in a municipal office this morning in an attempt…
Entering a research lab in 2026 and discovering that one of the world’s most ambitious multilingual AI models uses the…
A doctor I once spoke with at a small clinic in Karachi has two stacks of paper on her desk.…
The first thing you notice about San Cristóbal de las Casas is that there are other languages spoken in the…
The lab itself doesn’t look particularly impressive. Rooms in a Redmond building with glass walls, whiteboards with partially erased Mandarin…
Like many of these things, it began with a minor annoyance. When a linguist in Madrid asked a well-known chatbot…
Currently being tested at a speaker box in a strip-mall parking lot, somewhere off an exit ramp, between a gas…
At the core of Meta’s most ambitious AI project is a tiny irony. The messy, unplanned expanse of YouTube served…