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Introducing OBTranslate® (NMT / GPT-1 / NLP playground), OpenBinacle's most advanced AI system.

- Friday, March 3, 2023



Friday, March 3, 2023

A decentralized cloud for artificial intelligence.
Releasing v1 of OpenBinacle GPT-1 and NMT

OBTranslate® neural machine translation (MT/GPT-1) platform is optimized on over 2 billion tokens, which could surpass most 100B+ parameter models in classification. It is formed and trained with a decentralised algorithm with an interconnection of 1 Gbps, contrary to the typical data centre networks of 100Gbps-1.6Tbps.

We are working hard to bring computation power together to support the open models ecosystem, while developing decentralized training algorithms for heterogeneous GPU hardwares connected over slow (1Gbps) internet links.

We are building state-of-the-art models that are much larger, that can outperforms many 100B+ parameter models on classification benchmarks.

Our AI models, known as Large Language Models (LLMs), are very complex and expensive to train. These models are typically trained in specialized clusters featuring fast, homogeneous interconnects and using carefully designed software systems that support both data parallelism and model/pipeline parallelism. Training foundation models, such as OBTranslate® GPT and MT can be extremely expensive, often involving tens of thousands of GPUs running continually for months.The server costs required to train these models run into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

OBTranslate GTP-1 is a state-of-the-art generative AI model based on the Transformer architecture. Our Transformer architecture is a special kind of neural network.

The OBTranslate GTP-1 generative AI model is inherently good at generating text based on given inputs. Depending on your input, you can tell your AI model to do different things. For example, you can ask the model to classify text, extract specific entities from text, summarize large pieces of content, paraphrase some content, answer questions, and of course act as a chatbot.

OBTranslate® is the largest machine translation (MT) system in the world. It has evolved since its first inception in the Spring of 2019. Leading us to the development of version 1.1.1 during the Summer of 2020, and is currently in its latest version (1.9.6), with major portions of code that are efficient and easy to maintain.

Presently, we are working towards version 2.5.0, which will denote major changes in the architecture, the components, and "neural models". The new version is tailored to understand a larger dataset of languages on the universal free text and speech translator.

To promote collaboration and accelerate progress in OBTranslate® machine translation and AI, academic institutions can encourage the sharing of data and software among our researchers. This might include hosting open data repositories and providing support for open-source software development projects. By promoting open data and open-source software, academic institutions can help researchers avoid duplicating efforts and build on each other's work more easily.

OBTranslate® Machine translation and AI technologies have the potential to impact a wide range of communities and stakeholders, and it is important to ensure that research efforts are inclusive and represent diverse perspectives. Academic institutions can promote diversity and inclusivity by creating opportunities for underrepresented groups to participate in research projects, providing mentorship and support for early-career researchers from diverse backgrounds, and organizing events and initiatives that highlight the ethical and societal implications of machine translation and AI technologies.

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OpenBinacle® and academic institutions can promote diversity and inclusivity by creating opportunities for underrepresented groups to participate in research projects, providing mentorship and support for early-career researchers from diverse backgrounds, and organizing events and initiatives that highlight the ethical and societal implications of machine translation and AI technologies.
In fostering diversity and inclusivity, (OBMeet® and OBTranslate®) communication tools, machine translation and AI technologies have the potential to impact a wide range of communities and stakeholders, and it is important to ensure that research efforts are inclusive and represent diverse perspectives.

Academic institutions around the world can join us in further collaborative research in a broad range of machine translation, and artificial intelligence technologies for European and African languages. We are laser-focused on setting up our AI/LAB or Hub across universities in Europe and all 55 countries in Africa, wherein (OBMeet® and OBTranslate®) experts and scientists will provide digital materials and knowledge base through our interactive, educational, training, and e-learning web-based platforms.

We can provide a fraction of our dataset for each language; they are released on OBTranslate® public "Creative Commons Attribution" 4.0 license. This way, students can learn how to write their languages and work on their projects, release research, and advance their careers, while at the same time citing the dataset we have provided.


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Academic institutions have a critical role to play in furthering collaborative research in machine translation and AI technologies.


In promoting diversity and inclusivity, academic institutions can help OpenBinacle researchers make rapid progress in these fields and develop technologies that have a positive impact on society.