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Unbabel
Company blog · unbabel.com/blogaibusiness
Unbabel is the company blog at unbabel.com, writing about ai and business. Since 2014, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Unbabel as a human-corrected machine translation service, and as a company that hires and publishes NLP research. One commenter calls its blog article on swearing and language interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Unbabel’s Language Operations Platform gives businesses the ability to thrive across cultures and geographies by eliminating language barriers.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-26
What Hacker News says?
According to Unbabel website: >We are a fast growing, fast paced startup who is trying to change the world by making comunication seamless in any language. Source: https://www.unbabel.com/jobs/ #Comment: Well there is something wrong with their communication.
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on “Failing the startup game at Unbabel”Submitted Hone your tone of voice: A linguistic perspective on how to talk to customers as a story · 121 points
HN discussion> It adds absolutely nothing It adds tone of voice. It sounds like him when you read it. Sure, he might be able to communicate the level of frustration he feels with “double-plus-ungood” or similar, but it would have a different quality to it. There are benefits to swearing, this is an interesting article on the subject: https://unbabel.com/blog/swearing-language/
Comment linking /blog/swearing-language/
on “Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’”Submitted Unbabel TowerLLM is first Generative AI to beat GPT-4o and lead MT market as a story · 47 points
HN discussionWell it's a direct market, customer service is king. The sellers cannot really move their 'brand' from one market to another. An opportunist could reserve their username on another market, and users know that anyone could be behind that new account. They don't trust the name, only the reviews you have on your particular market. What I want to say is that the reputation of their anonymous brand is worth something, be…
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on “179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown”Submitted The good, the bad and the ugly of machine translation for customer service as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI remember reading your NLP papers back in my academic days. Great work. One typo: in the https://www.unbabel.com/pricing/ page "from Portuguese to Portuguese can take some time".
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on “Show HN: Unbabel API – Human Corrected Machine Translation”Submitted Social Customer Service is the new Marketing hero as a story · 11 points
HN discussionRelevant Posted today: The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal Space Agency (PT Space), European Space Agency (ESA) and Unbabel Labs open competition for a €500,000 award that will combine Artificial Intelligence and space technologies to solve major environmental issues. The winning team will present its solution at Web Summit 2020. https://unbabel.com/news/500k-ai-moonshot-challenge-will-com...
Comment linking /news/500k-ai-moonshot-challenge-will-combine-ai-with-emerging-space-technologies-to-combat-climate-change/
on “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency”Submitted Computer says no – Why my dad hates automation in customer support as a story · 10 points
HN discussionTranslation services, Unbabel [0] is the only one I have experience with (they went through YC a few years back). And I noticed a couple of days ago they're hiring developers in Lisbon. [0] https://unbabel.com/
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on “Ask HN: Do you know of any good product taking advantage of NLP?”Submitted P.S.: I love you. When gamers break up with you as a story · 8 points
HN discussionUnbabel is one that uses machine translation followed by human verification/corrections. I've never used them to get translations, but I have done a little bit of post-editing for them. https://unbabel.com/
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on “Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?”Submitted Happy Holidays from Unbabel – 2015 was awesome as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe space for AI-powered venture-backed companies is really booming. Full list of companies mentioned in the article: Enigma - http://enigma.io/ Sift Science - https://siftscience.com/ Ravelin - https://ravelin.com/ H2O.ai - http://h2o.ai/ Seldon - http://www.seldon.io/ SigOpt - https://sigopt.com/ Gluru - https://gluru.co/ x.ai - https://x.ai/ SwiftKey - https://swiftkey.com/en Matternet - https://mttr.net/ SkyCatc…
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on “Investing in Artificial Intelligence”Submitted Can AI fix fake news? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI'm not sure if they support excel, but https://unbabel.com looks like a good service.
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on “Ask HN: Can you recommend a translation service for website trans?”Submitted Can the Voynich Manuscript even be translated? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gig Economy and the Future of Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenKiwi, open-source machine translation estimator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The quest for a universal translator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Suddenly, your whole team is remote. Now what? Learn from the experts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gender bias in AI: building fairer algorithms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is talking to you. But does it understand what it says? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana – Why Are They All Women? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating customer support: do humans really need human help? as a story · 1 points
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