# Google Research — ATLAS: Practical scaling laws for multilingual models

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-01-27T18:58:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/atlas-practical-scaling-laws-for-multilingual-models/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1373-atlas-practical-scaling-laws-for-multilingual-models

Google Research introduces ATLAS, new scaling laws for multilingual language models, based on 774 training runs across 10M-8B parameter models and data spanning 400+ languages, providing guidance on optimal model size, data volume, and language mixtures.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/atlas-practical-scaling-laws-for-multilingual-models/:

> We introduce new scaling laws for massively multilingual language models.

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