NLLB-200
Meta's open translator for 200 languages, including rare ones.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Rare languages, research
- On your PC
- Technical
- Works on
- Linux, Windows, Mac
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
What’s good
- 200 languages, many low-resource ones
- Small 600M version runs on a laptop CPU
Downsides
- Research model, Meta says not for production use
- Non-commercial license
- Old (2022), sentence by sentence, weak on long texts
The details.
- Version
- nllb-200 (600M to 3.3B)
- Open source
- Yes, CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Made by
- Meta
- Website
- huggingface.co
Should you use it?
It is #10 of 10. Good for rare languages, research; for most people, Gemini is the better start.
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Technical: command line or python.
Use Transformers (Python).
- You need
- Any laptop with 4 GB free RAM for the 600M model
- Setup
- TechnicalCommand line or Python
- Laptop, 8 GBRuns
- PC, 16 GB+Runs
- Mac, 16 GBRuns
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns