Checked: 2026-09-063 sourced results

What AI has done in access and language

Be My Eyes serves more than 1 million blind or low-vision users with AI and 10 million volunteers, and one 2024 update added 110 languages spoken by 614 million people to Google Translate.

  1. More than 1 million blind or low-vision people use Be My Eyes, with AI answering alongside 10 million volunteers

    1,000,000+ users; 10,000,000+ volunteers; 150+ countries; 180+ languages

    On 12 March 2026 Be My Eyes announced more than 1 million blind or low-vision users and over 10 million volunteers, across more than 150 countries and 180 languages. Its Be My AI tool describes what the camera sees so users are not dependent on a volunteer being free.

    Source: Be My Eyes Reaches 1 Million Blind and Low-Vision Users and 10 Million Volunteers, Be My Eyes, 2026-03-12. Checked 2026-09-06.

  2. A single AI update added 110 languages to Google Translate, spoken by 614 million people

    110 languages; 614 million speakers; ~8% of the world's population

    Using the PaLM 2 language model, Google added 110 languages to Translate in its largest expansion ever, representing more than 614 million speakers, around 8% of the world's population, including languages such as Cantonese, Tamazight and Wolof.

    Source: 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate, Google, 2024-06-27. Checked 2026-09-06.

  3. One open model translates 200 languages, 55 of them African, at 44% higher quality than the previous best

    200 languages; +44% average BLEU over prior state of the art; 55 African languages

    Meta's No Language Left Behind model, NLLB-200, translates between 200 languages with BLEU scores that improve on the previous state of the art by an average of 44%, and supports 55 African languages with high-quality results where widely used tools covered fewer than 25.

    Source: 200 languages within a single AI model: A breakthrough in high-quality machine translation, Meta AI, 2022-07-06. Checked 2026-09-06.

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