Fast-growing German machine translation provider DeepL sells 13.6% stake to Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark Capital as usage continues to accelerate. Continue reading
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The demand for high quality language data to train machine learning systems including neural machine translation is fuelling a growth curve for providers Appen, Flitto, and others. Continue reading
The US government is asking for public comment to determine whether a range of “emerging technologies,” including machine translation, are essential to national security and should be subject to export controls. Continue reading
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AI-focused text analytics company Expert System posts 52% revenue growth for the first half 2018, as total sales reach EUR 12.9m, driven by recurring licenses and foreign sales. Continue reading
An interpreter accused multi-billion listed company of passing off human interpretation as the output of its AI translation engine on social media. The post sparked off a media frenzy questioning company’s marketing spin. Continue reading
Ferose V R, Head of Globalization at SAP, on the challenges and opportunities to be found in multilingual countries and longtail languages, and why translation has a bright future in AI / human interaction. Continue reading
Language data and search engine training company Appen delivers triple digit revenue growth on the back of Leapforce acquisition and strong organic performance. AI boom drives shares to all-time high. Continue reading
Researchers analyzed the impact of introducing a Spanish machine translation system to eBay’s platform and found direct and positive causal links between machine translation adoption and economic activities. Continue reading
Conference and training attracts delegates from all over the world to hear how AI and machine learning can transform the industry, from translations to managing regulatory requirements Continue reading
Facebook is open sourcing its unified deep learning framework PyTorch 1.0, the underlying technology that supports AI and many of its products including Translate. Continue reading
Appen delivers yet another stellar year with strong revenue and profit growth, lower expense ratio, and improved operating margins. Recent acquisitions appear to work well. Strong performance lifts Appen’s market cap to above AUD 1bn Continue reading
Can machines become as good as humans in natural language? Are CAT tools getting far too complicated? Will users increasingly grow comfortable with sacrificing data privacy for personalized digital comfort? These issues are examined with bold quotes and predictions from the memoQ Trend Report 2018. Continue reading
China issued a 3-year action plan to boost AI development for implementation across the whole country. It sets out quantified targets for eight commercial applications of AI, including speech recognition and machine translation, which it wants to achieve by 2020. Continue reading
Memsource will release the first feature powered by newly developed artificial intelligence technology. The AI-powered Non-translatables feature will be available as an option in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of the translation management system on January 16, 2018, and in all paid editions in the following weeks. Continue reading
CNBC reports that Amazon is looking to offer the translation technology it built for internal use to third parties. The move would be a direct challenge to Google Translate and the many other MT offerings by big tech companies. Continue reading
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