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Multilingual Models and the Tokenization Tax
Multilingual LLMs work unevenly: best on high-resource languages (English), worse on low-resource ones, because training data is English-heavy. A subtler issue is tokenization: tokenizers trained mostly on English split other languages and non-Latin scripts into far more tokens, so the same meaning costs more tokens, more money, more latency, and less context, a real fairness and cost penalty. Applied-AI interviews probe it because global products hit both the quality gap and the token tax, and per-language evaluation surfaces what aggregates hide.
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