Google Translation never "became very good" and it still isn't when you compare it to DeepL or Kagi.

Where it excels is quantity. Often, niche languages are only available on Google Translate.

Google Translate became very good compared to what came before it. Other stuff is better now and one day we will say the tools of today are trash.

No, even when they switched to machine learning their translations still made mistakes that would have made you look goofy. And even today their models still make mistakes that are just weird.

It is especially baffling because Google has much better data sets and much more compute than their competitors.

Google Translate isn't what's meant when tech CEOs say "AI" in 2025.

What tech CEO says is "a text box with magic" Google translate fulfills that and there are ways to integrate with LLM if technology marketing is important.

Unless it is nVidia's CEO, who wants to sell specific hardware, they mostly care about the buzz of the term, not a specific technology, though.

Stop blurring the lines, google translate using machine learning has nothing to do with turning firefox into an ai browser

It has everything to do with it. Mozilla explicitly talked about AI in the context of their relatively new translation feature a year or two back. Live captions also uses "AI". The term AI includes machine learning in marketing speech.

If that was the case that means Firefox is already an AI browser. But he wouldn’t be talking about AI browsers if he planned on maintaining the current features and approach, would he?