NMTs and LLMs have revolutionized language translation. They’ve brought increasingly natural translations to everyone, while transforming the traditional job of human translators by providing them with a great first draft. Now, what will AI agents bring next?
Will new agentic approaches guide LLMs to produce more nuanced, human-like translations?
Meanwhile, much of the work involved in real-world internationalization lies not in crafting translations, but in navigating elaborate workflows. Just as AI agents promise to automate mundane office computing tasks, how will they make internationalization more efficient by streamlining tedious processes?

Given at GenAI Summit in Santa Clara, July 2025