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    Meta teams up with India AI to boost local language models

    Meta just signed an MoU with the Indian government's 'India AI' initiative to bring its open-source AI models to local researchers and startups. The partnership focuses on building datasets for India's diverse low-resource languages using models like Llama, MMS, and NLLB, alongside plans for a joint Center of Excellence.

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    Meta open-sources speech AI covering 4,000+ languages

    Meta just open-sourced its Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) models, expanding text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities to over 1,100 languages—a tenfold leap over current tools. It can also identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, trained on diverse recordings of translated religious texts. It is a critical push toward saving endangered dialects and bringing speech AI to underserved communities.