Introducing Lara, a Breakthrough Translation AI System

Rome – November 4, 2024

Translated, a global leader in AI-powered language solutions, today introduced Lara, a breakthrough translation AI that outperforms popular machine translation and approaches the quality of top-tier professional translators.

Trained with NVIDIA GPUs, Lara redefines machine translation by explaining its choices, leveraging contextual understanding and reasoning to provide professional-grade translations users can trust. This milestone announcement follows a $30 million investment led by the private investment house Ardian in 2021 to bring Translated’s language technology to a global audience.

In recent years, Translated has considerably expanded its machine translation offering, increasing the number of languages supported from 62 to over 200 and developing a novel technique, Trust Attention, that ranks source data based on its reliability, and has contributed to advancing accuracy in generative AI. The combination of Translated’s advanced technologies and a vast global network of professional translators is trusted by clients worldwide, including Airbnb, SpaceX, Uber, and Glovo.

Lara articulates its translation choices using the largest and most meticulously curated dataset, a unique collection of 25 million real-world translations by top professional translators. It includes machine-generated translations reviewed and refined by professional translators, capturing errors, corrective feedback, and reasoning during disagreements. Lara utilizes this knowledge, along with contextual understanding, to weigh options and refine translations to ensure accuracy and clarity. Users can also instruct Lara on the relevant style for a translation, whether fluid, faithful, or creative, depending on the project. Together, these features result in one of the most trustworthy translation AI offerings available worldwide.

Lara further redefines traditional machine translation by providing live human support for specialized needs, such as cultural relevance checks and desktop publishing. Lara is now accessible for personal and professional applications in the most frequently requested languages worldwide (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese), with a plan to support all 200 languages already covered by Translated’s solutions.

In a rigorous double-blind study, professional translators ranked Lara highest when compared to popular machine translation tools.

Lara consistently makes fewer errors than median professional translators and approaches the language singularity. Translated considers this to be the point when the top professional translators will spend as much time reviewing a translation delivered by AI as one delivered by their peers. Based on early evaluation, Translated expects it will be able to reach language singularity in 2025 when a new, more powerful version of Lara will be released.

Lara is available for individuals and teams at https://lara.translated.com. For information on how enterprises can implement Lara into localization workflows, businesses should contact Translated directly.