source language
noun
: a language which is to be translated into another language compare target language
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Until now, Anduril has been using open source language models for testing purposes.
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Will Knight, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
Here, the training data consists of pairs of sentences, one in the source language and one in the target language.
—Zachary C. Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
Delange said that open source language models are improving rapidly and can be better than OpenAI’s market-leading GPT-4 for some specialized tasks.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2024
The frontier focus also excludes open source language models, the best of which are seen as slightly behind the best available, but can be downloaded and used—or misused—by anyone.
—WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
And the wide accessibility of generative AI tools, including numerous open source language models anyone can obtain and modify, lowers the bar for anyone looking to launch an information campaign.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
Interestingly, Qatalog is built on top of open-source language models — in this case BLOOM, a system created by a research collective that included A.I. company Hugging Face, EleutherAI, and more than 250 other institutions.
—Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
The robot lawyer will use GPT-J, an open source language model released by EleutherAI, a collective of volunteer researchers, engineers and developers.
—Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
The team's most significant technical challenge was that Android has English as its source language.
—Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
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Will Knight, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
Here, the training data consists of pairs of sentences, one in the source language and one in the target language.
—Zachary C. Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
Delange said that open source language models are improving rapidly and can be better than OpenAI’s market-leading GPT-4 for some specialized tasks.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2024
The frontier focus also excludes open source language models, the best of which are seen as slightly behind the best available, but can be downloaded and used—or misused—by anyone.
—WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
And the wide accessibility of generative AI tools, including numerous open source language models anyone can obtain and modify, lowers the bar for anyone looking to launch an information campaign.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
Interestingly, Qatalog is built on top of open-source language models — in this case BLOOM, a system created by a research collective that included A.I. company Hugging Face, EleutherAI, and more than 250 other institutions.
—Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
The robot lawyer will use GPT-J, an open source language model released by EleutherAI, a collective of volunteer researchers, engineers and developers.
—Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
The team's most significant technical challenge was that Android has English as its source language.
—Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
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“Source language.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/source%20language. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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