Introducing Lara

The world’s most reliable translator

Lara is unique. It explains its translation choices to ensure clarity and alignment with your intent, values transparency and builds trust by acknowledging its current limits.

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Lara is better than machine translation, close to the best professional translators

Lara is the best translation technology ever created

In a double-blind evaluation, professional translators consistently preferred Lara over leading machine translation systems. The test set comprised user-generated content (chats, reviews, product descriptions) in the ten most requested localization languages.

Professional Translators Prefer LaraQuality* (%)40%30%60%50%70%80%FinanceTechnologyTourismGeneralLaraOpenAI’s GPT-4oGoogle TranslateDeepL

* Percentage of time that at least 2 out of 3 professional translators agreed that a translation was accurate in 2,700 translations from English to Italian, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Korean.

Lara is approaching the quality of the best professional translators

Lara delivers more accurate, natural, and trustworthy translations than the median professional translator. Early evaluations of the new model, set for 2025, project it to reach and surpass the language singularity — when AI will match the quality of the top 1% of professional translators.

Our Progress Toward Language SingularityJanuary 2024January 2025Language SingularityTypical Machine Translation SystemLara Grande012610842LaraMedian Professional TranslatorTop 1% Professional TranslatorErrors per 1,000 Words *

* Percentage of time that at least 2 out of 3 professional translators agreed that a translation was accurate in 2,700 translations from English to Italian, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Korean.

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How Lara works

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Understands context

Lara analyzes the entire text or document to understand the relationships between sentences, ensuring a natural flow and consistency throughout the translation. By maintaining a full contextual understanding, Lara accurately reflects the original intent while enhancing readability for the target audience.

Explains choices

Lara articulates its translation choices using a unique dataset of 25 million real-world translations by top professional translators. It includes machine-generated translations reviewed and refined by two professional translators, capturing errors, corrective feedback, and reasoning during disagreements. This knowledge helps Lara gather insights, weigh options, and refine translations, ensuring reliable results.

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Adapts styles

Users can request three different styles of translation from Lara: Faithful (for manuals, legal, and technical content), Fluid (for general content), and Creative (for marketing, literature, and creative writing). If something is unclear, Lara asks questions or requests instructions, such as which gender or what context, to refine translations and meet user needs precisely.

Gives you access to language experts

Lara, at a very reasonable cost, provides access to language experts. These include managing complex requests, reviewing translations by native-speaking language professionals, handling web localization, desktop publishing, and performing cultural checks for appropriateness.

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Our quest for trust in translation

Lara is the culmination of more than a decade of research in machine translation with the mission of enabling everyone to understand and be understood in their native language.

2011

First adaptive machine translation

The most-cited MT scientists form a group and are backed by EU to create Matecat, the first translation tool including adaptive machine translation.

2017

A more human machine translation

A new team from the Matecat group unveils ModernMT, the first commercial application of the Transformer, the foundational model of generative AI.

2023

The world’s best machine translation

ModernMT, now supporting 200 languages and capable of learning from data based on its trustworthiness, is a leading MT in Gartner, CSA Research and IDC MarketScape evaluations.

2024

The most reliable translation AI

Lara debuts human-like quality in machine translation, enabling a transition to a world where every piece of content is automatically delivered in the user's preferred language.

2025

Reaching language singularity

By 2025, the new Lara model is expected to match the quality of the top 1% of professional translators in the most widely used language pairs.

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For individuals and teams

Lara is available as an online translation tool you can trust for your personal and professional life, whether you need to translate a text or a document. For more complex tasks, you can rely on Lara's live multilingual project manager support.

For enterprise applications

Lara seamlessly integrates into your localization workflow and connects with your content source. With Lara, you can dramatically improve localization quality, reduce costs, translate an order of magnitude more content, and deliver an incredible experience to a broader global audience.

Inspired by the story of a little girl

Lara was inspired by a little girl born with the gift of speaking every language in the world

Language has been the most important factor in human evolution. Through language, we can understand each other and work together to build a better future. Complex language has enabled us to advance faster than any other species.

By enabling everyone to understand and be understood in their native language, we are unlocking the next stage of human evolution. We believe in humans.