NEW YORK, NY, June 25, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Smartling, the AI-powered translation company, today announced it has been named a winner of the 2026 AI Breakthrough Award for Machine Translation Innovation. The win comes as AI translation usage across its customer base has grown 218% year-over-year, proving enterprises have moved well beyond experimentation and into production-scale adoption.
For most organizations, generating AI translations was never the hard part. The hard part is creating translations they can trust: maintaining brand voice, ensuring quality at scale, and governing AI output across millions of words without a human reviewing every string. At production scale, that requires infrastructure, not just a tool.
“What we're seeing is that the companies that are successfully growing globally are deploying translation and localization at a scale not feasible a couple of years ago,” said Bryan Murphy, CEO of Smartling. “That's where Smartling has focused its innovation, helping enterprises grow globally while maintaining quality, governance, and brand integrity."
That focus has drawn recognition from three distinct audiences this year:
1. Industry experts: AI Breakthrough Award for Machine Translation Innovation
Smartling was named a 2026 AI Breakthrough Award winner for Machine Translation Innovation, selected from more than 5,000 nominations. The program has previously recognized companies including Nvidia, Glean, Databricks, and EY for innovation across the AI landscape.
2. Business leaders: Fast Company No. 3 in Business Services
In March, Fast Company ranked Smartling No. 3 in Business Services on its annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026, citing rapid enterprise adoption of AI translation and measurable improvements in cost and speed.
3. Customers: Strongest G2 quarter to date
Customer momentum has continued to accelerate. Smartling earned 41 G2 badges this quarter, up from 37 last quarter, and reached No. 1 on G2's Implementation Index for Translation Management. The company has held the top overall ranking in Translation Management for 15 consecutive quarters. G2’s rankings are based on verified customer reviews and market presence, reflecting how quickly teams are realizing value in production environments.
Enterprises are seeing measurable impact. Pinterest reduced time-to-market by 83% and delivered content to 100 million users across 31 languages simultaneously. Marriott International scaled training content from 7 to 38 languages, cut translation timelines from weeks to days, and reduced costs by 40%. A Fortune 500 software company saved $3.4 million in a single year while accelerating delivery by 50% and maintaining 99+ MQM quality scores across 50 million words.
About Smartling
Smartling is transforming how global enterprises create, manage, and scale multilingual content in the AI era. Its LanguageAI™ platform combines AI translation, workflow automation, and quality assurance infrastructure to help organizations automate multilingual content operations at enterprise scale. Trusted by leading global brands, Smartling enables companies to move faster globally while maintaining the quality, trust, and oversight required for enterprise AI translation. For more information, visit www.smartling.com.
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