No internet, no problem: Tether just released free AI translation models that work offline on your phone and laptop
You may like Google’s Live Translate tool now works offline — but only for select phones and languages Africa's AI moment has arrived — this 1.5B model built from scratch for 12 African languages beats Google, Meta, and Alibaba while being 8x smaller The next age of LLMs? You will receive a confirmation email shortly."},"failureMessage":"There was a problem. That is the future we are building through QVAC,” Ardoino added.AfriSLM is currently available through Hugging Face, and the associated research has also been accepted for presentation at EMNLP 2026.
- ▪You may like Google’s Live Translate tool now works offline — but only for select phones and languages Africa's AI moment has arrived — this 1.5B model built from scratch for 12 African languages beats Google, Meta, and Alibaba while being
- ▪You will receive a confirmation email shortly."},"failureMessage":"There was a problem.
- ▪That is the future we are building through QVAC,” Ardoino added.AfriSLM is currently available through Hugging Face, and the associated research has also been accepted for presentation at EMNLP 2026.
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Pro No internet, no problem: Tether just released free AI translation models that work offline on your phone and laptop News By Efosa Udinmwen Published 23 September 2026 3 min read Tether's offline AI push puts 19 African languages on devices When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Tether) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Tether's African model supports 19 languages while running directly on local devicesTether removed 96% of low-quality training material before building AfriSLMEuroNano supports 90 translation directions while occupying only…
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