Google says GNMT now handles 100% of live Chinese→English translation

Announced that GNMT had been applied to 100% of its live Chinese→English translation service

Why it matters

The point at which neural machine translation crossed over from research to commercial service

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Officialresearch.googlehttps://research.google/blog/a-neural-network-for-machine-translation-at-production-scale/

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