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Preferred Networks News Nov 5, 2026
PFN opens the weights of PLaMo 3 Translate: a 0.8B model runs 53 languages offline
Preferred Networks released PLaMo 3 Translate, a translation-specialized LLM suite originally built for its own PLaMo Translate service, as open weights on Hugging Face in four sizes (0.8B, 2B, 8B, 31B), runnable entirely offline on smartphones, laptops or internal corporate servers across 53 languages including English and Japanese. Under the PLaMo Community License, individuals and enterprises with annual revenue of 1 billion yen or less in their most recent fiscal year can download and use the models free for commercial and non-commercial purposes; larger organizations need a commercial license. PFN says its comparative evaluations put even the smallest 0.8B version ahead of comparable translation-specific LLMs such as Google's TranslateGemma and Tencent's Hy-MT2.
Preferred Networks released PLaMo 3 Translate, a translation-specialized LLM suite originally built for its own PLaMo Translate service, as open weights on Hugging Face in four sizes (0.8B, 2B, 8B, 31B), runnable entirely offline on smartphones, laptops or internal corporate servers across 53 languages including English and Japanese. Under the PLaMo Community License, individuals and enterprises with annual revenue of 1 billion yen or less in their most recent fiscal year can download and use the models free for commercial and non-commercial purposes; larger organizations need a commercial license. PFN says its comparative evaluations put even the smallest 0.8B version ahead of comparable translation-specific LLMs such as Google's TranslateGemma and Tencent's Hy-MT2.
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Preferred Networks Nov 5, 2026
PLaMo 3 Translate releases four weight sizes: the 0.8B model beats translation-specific models more than 30 times larger on Japanese-English and Japanese-multilingual pairs
Preferred Networks has released weights for PLaMo 3 Translate, a translation-specific model, at 0.8B, 2B, 8B and 31B on Hugging Face, along with FP8, W4A16, NVFP4, GGUF and MLX formats for quantized and local inference. The smallest 0.8B model outperforms existing translation-specific models more than 30 times larger on Japanese-English and Japanese-to-multilingual translation, while the 2B model surpasses all existing translation-specific models on English-to-multilingual translation. Training uses two-stage supervised fine-tuning plus DPO, with smaller models distilled from the 31B teacher.
Preferred Networks has released weights for PLaMo 3 Translate, a translation-specific model, at 0.8B, 2B, 8B and 31B on Hugging Face, along with FP8, W4A16, NVFP4, GGUF and MLX formats for quantized and local inference. The smallest 0.8B model outperforms existing translation-specific models more than 30 times larger on Japanese-English and Japanese-to-multilingual translation, while the 2B model surpasses all existing translation-specific models on English-to-multilingual translation. Training uses two-stage supervised fine-tuning plus DPO, with smaller models distilled from the 31B teacher.
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Preferred Networks Nov 5, 2026
PFN opens the weights of its translation-focused LLM PLaMo 3 Translate, letting the 0.8B model translate 53 languages on an offline phone
PFN released PLaMo 3 Translate, the translation-focused large language model behind its PLaMo translation service, as open-weight models in four sizes, 0.8B, 2B, 8B and 31B, which can be embedded in phones, laptops or in-house servers to translate among 53 languages including Japanese and English without a network connection. By PFN's own evaluation, the smallest model scores above Google's TranslateGemma and Tencent's Hy-MT2 on translation quality, and companies and individuals with revenue or sales of 1 billion yen or less in the latest fiscal year may use it commercially for free under the PLaMo Community License.
PFN released PLaMo 3 Translate, the translation-focused large language model behind its PLaMo translation service, as open-weight models in four sizes, 0.8B, 2B, 8B and 31B, which can be embedded in phones, laptops or in-house servers to translate among 53 languages including Japanese and English without a network connection. By PFN's own evaluation, the smallest model scores above Google's TranslateGemma and Tencent's Hy-MT2 on translation quality, and companies and individuals with revenue or sales of 1 billion yen or less in the latest fiscal year may use it commercially for free under the PLaMo Community License.
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PFN opens the weights of PLaMo 3 Translate: a 0.8B model runs 53 languages offline

PLaMo 3 Translate releases four weight sizes: the 0.8B model beats translation-specific models more than 30 times larger on Japanese-English and Japanese-multilingual pairs

PFN opens the weights of its translation-focused LLM PLaMo 3 Translate, letting the 0.8B model translate 53 languages on an offline phone