“Our solution to that was to develop a high-level API around the machine translation engine, port it to WebAssembly, and optimize the operations for matrix multiplication to run efficiently on CPUs.”
Translation that runs on your own CPU, with nothing sent to Google. It took the EU, four universities and three years to get here. Google Translate has been reading every page you feed it since 2006. Mozilla proved the cloud was never required. It was just more profitable.