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Many of the world's languages are at risk of disappearing. Here’s how AI can help

7,168 languages are spoken in the world today. But one dies out every 40 days and 90% could fall silent forever in the next 100 years. One key problem is that generative AI is trained on just a few of the world’s languages.

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