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US tech behemoth Microsoft is investing millions of dollars to funnel more European-language data into AI development, company president Brad Smith told AFP Monday.
With today’s leading AI models mostly trained on material in English, “the survival of these languages and the health of these cultures is quite literally at stake” without a course correction, Smith said in an interview.
AI models are “less capable when it is in a language that has insufficient data,” he added — which could push more users to switch to English even when it is not their…
