The language services and technology industry saw both tailwinds and headwinds in 2023. Growth across verticals was mixed. Media localization experienced significant disruption linked to US actors and writers strikes, and technology companies continued a pattern of layoffs and tightening budgets that began the prior year.
Demand for interpreting stayed strong, however, fuelled by requirements from US healthcare, as well as EU public sector buyers. Regulated industries also remained resilient. The high levels of inflation that characterized the previous year eased in 2023. However, general macroeconomic and political uncertainty contributed to a focus on profitability, cost-cutting, and localization ROI from major buyers.
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A rapid run of impactful AI releases in 2023 continued to raise the bar in language AI. The state-of-the-art — for converting and generating text, speech, audio, image, and video — shifted markedly from month to month. This pace of AI innovation has persisted through early 2024. Buyers and providers are under pressure to quickly adapt, innovate, and extract value from new AI capabilities.
2024 also saw AI regulations start to take shape in the EU, US, and globally. Questions of how to build and implement AI while balancing risks have, with the adoption of such regulations, become more specific and concrete.
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