...or at least the kind of model that isn't fueled by burning a small forest for every query? I am wanting to play an old video game, but I'm still only just learning the language and could use an aid. I really, really want to avoid any of this incredibly wasteful AI stuff.
Stuff like DeepL and Google Translate use AI but not LLMs. They use much less power from what I can gather. For example Firefox allows you to perform such translation on your computer without using a cloud service like Google Translate and its still pretty fast.