AIOAI task ranking · 2026-08-21
Best Asian AI Models for Translation in 2026 · Page 2
Translation quality depends heavily on the language pair and local context. This list therefore values regional-language specialization alongside general multilingual capability.
Ranked for translation
Translation scores consider multilingual breadth, region-specific language focus, practical access and how central translation is to the model’s stated use cases.
Mi:dm 2.0
A Korean-English open foundation-model family released with technical documentation and developer weights.
14PLaMo
A Japanese foundation-model family built for strong local-language performance and enterprise deployment options.
Kimi
A research and long-document assistant with reasoning and coding capabilities.
ERNIE
Baidu's multimodal foundation-model family for text, reasoning, vision, audio and enterprise applications.
Kanana
Kakao's Korean-first language-model family with open releases for chat, reasoning and developer use.
DeepSeek
Reasoning and coding models with a strong free experience and developer access.
19GLM
A multilingual model family spanning chat, reasoning, coding and visual understanding.
20EXAONE
LG's bilingual and multimodal model family for professional and research use.
21Rakuten AI
Rakuten's Japanese-English open model family, including compact releases for local developer use.
22Doubao
A consumer-friendly assistant with text, image and voice experiences.
23Solar
A compact language model family built for efficient enterprise and document workflows.
24PERSO
ESTsoft's first-party AI avatar and dubbing platform for multilingual presenter videos and enterprise content production.