[Tether Open-Sources AI Translation Models Covering 19 African Languages and 9 European Languages] BlockBeats News, September 2: Tether AI Research announced the release of multiple open-source AI translation models that can run directly on smartphones, laptops, and other edge devices, supporting offline translation without requiring user data to be uploaded to third-party clouds. Among them, TranslatePsy-AfriSLM supports 19 African languages, AfriNano supports 8, and EuroNano covers 9 European languages; the languages supported by the former are spoken by approximately half of Africa's population. Tether has also introduced a new quality assessment filtering method capable of removing up to 96% of low-quality open-source training data. The related models are now available for download on Hugging Face, and the research results have been accepted by the EMNLP 2026 conference. [Original Link]