[I read the paper for you]: Researchers announce CulturaX – a new multilingual dataset for AI with 6 trillion words across 167 languages

I read the Arxiv paper on CulturaX so you don't have to. Here's my highlights:

• New open dataset called CulturaX contains text data for 167 languages - far more than previous datasets.
• With over 6 trillion words, it's the largest multilingual dataset ever released.
• Freely available for anyone to use for research and AI development.
• Created by combining and extensively cleaning two other large datasets - mC4 and OSCAR.
• Could allow developing AI systems that work much better across many more languages.
• Helps democratize access to data to build fairer, less biased AI models.
• Allows training of new multilingual AI applications, like universal translators and assistants.
• But still requires thoughtfulness to avoid issues like bias amplification.

Overall, CulturaX is going to be part of a broader global trend (I think) to advance multilingual AI and spread its benefits more equally. So far they've been concentrated in English-speaking applications.
Full summary here if you'd like to read more. Original paper is here.