Google Launches TranslateGemma AI Models Supporting Translation Across 55 Languages

Google unveils TranslateGemma, a breakthrough AI translation system that outperforms larger models while using half the parameters, enabling seamless communication across 55 languages on devices ranging from smartphones to cloud servers with advanced image text translation capabilities.

• Google launches TranslateGemma, a new collection of open translation models built on Gemma 3, available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes to help people communicate across 55 languages
• The 12B TranslateGemma model outperforms the larger Gemma 3 27B baseline using less than half the parameters, achieved through a two-stage fine-tuning process that distills knowledge from advanced Gemini models
• TranslateGemma supports deployment across various environments from mobile devices to cloud infrastructure and retains strong multimodal capabilities for translating text within images