TranslateGemma emerges top local translation pick

This is the kind of enterprise AI use case open models are starting to win: private, good-enough, and cheap enough to screen everything before paying humans.

• –The buyer here is not chasing DeepL-quality prose; they need English-to-German and broader European coverage that can run fully offline on internal infrastructure
• –TranslateGemma is purpose-built for translation, ships in 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes, and Google says the fine-tuned family beats comparable open baselines on standard translation evals
• –Tiny Aya is the more flexible shortlist entry for broader multilingual coverage, especially if the company wants one local model family spanning European plus West or South Asian languages
• –The real procurement test is not benchmark bragging rights but sample-set adequacy on internal legal files: confidentiality, language coverage, and routing quality matter more than polished final wording