Google Explains how MUM improved Google Searches for vaccine information

With MUM, Google was able to identify over 800 variations of vaccine names in more than 50 languages in a matter of seconds. After validating MUM’s findings, they applied them to Google Search so that people could find timely, high-quality information about COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.

MUM was able to do a job that should take weeks in just seconds thanks to its knowledge transfer skills. MUM can learn from and transfer knowledge across the 75+ languages it’s trained on. For example, imagine reading a book; if you’re multilingual, you’d be able to share the major takeaways of the book in the other languages you speak — depending on your fluency — because you have an understanding of the book that isn’t language- or translation-dependent. MUM transfers knowledge across languages much like this.