Recently decided to pivot from a small client-side language model, that ran in the browser to power our translation feature, to a cloud-based frontier model.
While it breaks my little privacy-loving heart, the experience is significantly better and we owed it to our users.
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Free inference isn't free: moving translation out of the browser
Support teams talk to customers in whatever language their customers use. If you only read English, a message in Japanese or Portuguese is not much use. Earlier this year, we added an experimental translation feature to Plain. Turn it on in your personal preferences, and translated messages appear automatically alongside the original.