Your AI Translation Is Wrong. And This CEO Built a Tool to Prove It | Adam Bittlingmayer
Adam Bittlingmayer spent six years at Google Translate watching machine translation transform how billions of people access information. Then he founded ModelFront to solve the problem Google couldn't: knowing which AI translations to trust before you publish them. In this conversation with Robin Ayoub, Adam breaks down the real state of machine translation, why post-editing is still broken, and why 2026 is the year the industry can no longer afford to stand still.
Localization Fireside Chat · Adam Bittlingmayer
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Show Notes
In this episode Robin and Adam cover:
- Adam's six years at Google Translate and what he actually built there
- Why 7 billion people still can't reliably access high-value content in their language
- The post-editing bottleneck that slows down every translation workflow
- How ModelFront predicts translation quality before human review
- Why the existential crisis facing LSPs has less to do with AI than most think
- The real reason change in the translation industry always comes from outside
- Adam's final advice: independence and control are everything
Resources mentioned:
- ModelFront: https://modelfront.com
- Machine Translate Foundation: https://machinetranslate.org
- Machine Translation Subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/machinetranslation
- Localization Fireside Chat: https://localization-fireside-chat.simplecast.com/
Credits
Host: Robin Ayoub, Founder, Localization Fireside Chat
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