On January 15, 2026, Google released TranslateGemma, a specialized language model developed by Google DeepMind, which can perform translation tasks for 55 languages, including Traditional Chinese and English. Simon Liu, an AI Solutions Expert and Google Developer Expert, created an open-source project called Open Translate, a modern interface for TranslateGemma, to provide an offline translation web service. The project utilizes FastAPI and Hugging Face transformers to call the translategemma-4b-it model with CUDA acceleration, supporting multimodal translation, including image input. Open Translate ensures data privacy and security through full offline deployment via Docker. The release of TranslateGemma and Open Translate demonstrates the potential of specialized small models to provide professional-quality translation capabilities, lowering the barrier to entry and democratizing compute. With its high efficiency and flexibility, TranslateGemma excels in authority benchmarks like WMT24++, making it a significant development in the field of artificial intelligence and machine translation.