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The code, training pipeline, and models that power Firefox Translations

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8Mentions
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375GitHub stars
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The code, training pipeline, and models that power Firefox Translations

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Observed mentions: 2022-06-02 18:31:26 UTC to 2025-11-09 00:17:08 UTC.

012342022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

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I'm encouraged that they're actively exploring this and not shying away from experiments. It seems clear to me that there are areas of Mozilla[0],[1] pushing closer and closer to great local AI integrations doing the kinds of things that I, a browser user, find useful. I went to some of the articles on the hn frontpage and had questions (and followups!) that begat reasonable starting points for further learning. Hopefully they continue to iterate on this with better integration (for instance, moving to a toolbar icon instead of persistent badge on every page) and then make it ~truly privacy respecting by moving locally. [0] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile [1] https://github.com/mozilla/translations
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The training pipeline is also on Github! [1] I was experimenting with running the wasm version of bergamot-translator (the translation engine used by the addon) in node [2]. However, if you want more performance, using the Python library [3] or the native C++ interface [4] gets you further because the wasm build is limited to a single thread and thus a blocking interface, and can't use all the processor specific optimisations that are in the native builds. EDIT: Another option is using translateLocally [5], which is a Qt desktop app based on bergamot-translator. It has a native messaging API that is designed as a much faster alternative to the wasm build for browser extensions, but it can also be used from Python [6]. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-training [2] https://gist.github.com/jelmervdl/a4c8b6b92ad88a885e1cbd5
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In Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

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