Since the release of GPT-4o, it has been the talk of the town! It’s Superior but now new players are beating it also. Just a few days ago AutoCoder LLM shocked the world and defeated it on the HumanEval benchmark. And now we have another LLM on our hands which has left GPT-4o behind for Translation, named TowerLLM.
Highlights:
- Unlabel launches TowerLLM, the world’s first AI model to be optimized for smooth multilingual translation.
- Uses RAG technology for better information extraction while translating and also keeps track of entities.
- Surpasses GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.0 on the COMET-22 benchmark across several languages.
TowerLLM beats GPT-4o for Machine Translation
Unlabel, the AI-driven Language Operations (LangOps) platform that assists companies in providing multilingual customer experiences has announced the launch of TowerLLM. They claim it to be a powerful generative AI model that beats GPT-4o for machine translation.
This is indeed a big breaking in the field of generative AI tools, as this model not only promises superior translation qualities but also optimized and reduced-cost solutions for more expensive operations.
Furthermore, the AI model is also built upon machine language translation data across 18 pairs. This will also enable it to detect natural language far more easily compared to others and break down speech for faster translations.
It has been trained on billions of words of the highest quality translation data, curated using Unbabel’s Quality LLM, COMETKiwi, for superior translation performance. Can you imagine? ‘Billions’ of words. We all know the main source of power and functionality for an AI model lies in its knowledge base, and Unlabel has levelled up just that for Tower LLM.
This is what the company has to say about this new AI model:
“Despite the doubts from some in the industry, TowerLLM clearly demonstrates that LLMs are the best solution for machine translation. We’ve invested years into developing LLMs, so we’re not surprised to see TowerLLM outperform GPT-4o. This is the second multilingual LLM we’ve released after COMETKiwi, and we’re just getting started.”
João Graça, Co-Founder and CTO at Unbabel
To access TowerLLM, you need to submit an access request for a demo to Unlabel’s sales team. In the request you have to specify your business organization and mention the number of words you wish to translate per month. Following this you may get a demo for TowerLLM.
What It Can Do?
TowerLLM’s capabilities even transcend translation. It excels at much more diverse tasks. Let’s take a look at a few of them:
1) Machine Post Editing
Based on the AI Quality Estimation, TowerLLM automatically corrects Machine Translation output. So, now you can stay carefree and not worry about the hassles included in the translation of speech and natural language across multiple languages.
The mechanism to estimate the AI quality of translation makes it an efficient LLM compared to others for this specific task.
2) Named Entity Recognition
To ensure accuracy and consistency in translations, TowerLLM identifies and maintains named entities, such as names of people, places, and organizations. This is highly important for generative AI-based translations where these important entity details play a key part.
Imagine if an LLM does the translation right, but what if it got the name of a person or the organization wrong in the process? The whole thing becomes incorrect. Thus TowerLLM seems well backed up for these types of errors.
3) On-the-fly Adaptation
This is one of the most impressive features of TowerLLM and surrounds a key concept of generative AI. TowerLLM can include important information from customer-specific data, like glossaries, translation memories, and previously translated text, into the translation process using retrieval augmented generation (RAG).
Translation involves more than just the knowledge of the language, and TowerLLM backed up with RAG will just smoothen up the process of extracting more information while translation. This information will come in handy in case the LLM fails to understand and comply with natural language while translating.
Overall, TowerLLM excels at diverse translation tasks beyond traditional MT, including post-editing, named entity recognition, terminology consistency, and quality estimation. This AI tool will make wonders!
How TowerLLM surpassed GPT-4o?
Because TowerLLM was created from the ground up to be multilingual, it consistently outperforms Google and DeepL and offers translation quality that is superior to industry leaders like GPT-4o and GPT-3.5.
You can see in the results below that TowerLLM surpasses both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.0 in the COMET-22 benchmark across seven languages namely Portuguese, Portuguese BR, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Korean.
It also surpasses GPT models at translation between English and German across several domains such as Financial, Legal, Medical, and Technical.
This is quite impressive and based on these results we can say TowerLLM is the best AI model when it comes to translation. However, we must not forget that it won’t come close to GPT-4o when vision capabilities and other coding, and math-related tasks are considered.
So, at the end of the day, every AI tool is good for a specific thing, and nothing beats another.
Conclusion
In this world of growing diversities, finally, we have an LLM that excels at Translation and surpasses everyone. TowerLLM is here to translate and make everyone’s lives simpler. Also, its methodologies offer us a new insight into the AI translation mechanism which lays a foundation for tomorrow’s technology.
