Microsoft Boosts Multilingual Language Models in Europe
Summary
Microsoft unveils initiatives to enhance multilingual language models across Europe, addressing underrepresentation of European languages in web data used for training, offering grants, cloud resources, and engineering support to improve LLM performance for non-English languages.
Key Points
- Microsoft announces plans to expand development and adoption of multilingual large language models across Europe
- Europe's languages are underrepresented in web content used to train LLMs, resulting in lower performance for non-English languages
- Microsoft will provide grants, cloud credits, and engineering support to create more multilingual data and improve LLM performance in European languages