We benchmarked TranslateGemma-12b against 5 frontier LLMs on subtitle translation - it won across the board, with one significant catch

As part of our ongoing translation quality research at Alconost, we put six models through subtitle translation into six language pairs. At first glance the numbers told a clean story. Then human QA added a chapter. Models: TranslateGemma-12b gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview deepseek-v3.2 claude-sonnet