Our founders Spence and John were researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, where they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone.

John and Spence met while working on Google Translate at Google and decided to build a company with the mission of making the world’s information available to everyone in their preferred language.

Since its incorporation in March 2015, Lilt has always been a machine learning company at its core. At the time, machine translation didn’t meet the quality standard for enterprise translation, so Lilt assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services, Lilt has prioritized investments in Large Language Models, believing that this foundation was imperative to the future of enterprise translation.

In the future, all digital products and services will be available in all languages on the internet. Lilt is a leader in innovation, making that future possible by enabling global organizations to deliver multilingual customer experiences at scale through Contextual AI.