I need a local model without espionage, which can translate text into several languages and not heat up my hardware too much, since computers are getting more expensive now.
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The Firefox Browser has translation built in and it works fairly well. We have LibreTranslate as a self-hosted service, I think it’s okay… Not particulary good, more okay in my experience. And what I tend to do is just copy-paste text to my local LLM and tell it to translate. Most models will do it. They have to be trained on multiple languages for that, and can’t be too small. You could try one of the Ministral models at whatever size fits and doesn’t heat up your computer. But I bet the average model from Meta and Google will do as well, I think they all have multilangual capabilities these days. And for web use, I’d recommend using Firefox. I can read Japanese websites with that. It’s not perfect by any means, but low on the resources and it only takes a few seconds, even on battery power on my laptop.
I do wonder if this is any good:
Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model
Trained on 15 trillion tokens across more than 1,000 languages – 40% of the data is non-English – Apertus includes many languages that have so far been underrepresented in LLMs, such as Swiss German, Romansh, and many others.
“Apertus is built for the public good. It stands among the few fully open LLMs at this scale and is the first of its kind to embody multilingualism, transparency, and compliance as foundational design principles,” says Imanol Schlag, technical lead of the LLM project and Research Scientist at ETH Zurich.
It’s available in LM Studio:
I mainly translate from Ukranian and French and for that I find any Mistral model is good enough
LibreTranslate isn’t AI, but it’s alright, it’ll let you get the general gist of something. if you want something that works with your local ollama, then there’s Page Assist for Firefox and its forks. you can pop it into the sidebar and when you open it it will let you run prompts on the current page.
