African languages for AI: the project that’s gathering a huge new dataset

When a language isn’t in the data, its speakers aren’t in the product – and AI cannot be safe, useful, or fair for them.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Last fluent speaker on a quest to keep ancient S.African language alive

In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two ...
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African AI Talent Shrinks Continent’s First Multilingual Language Model by 75%

In a major leap for inclusive and accessible artificial intelligence, Africa’s first multilingual Small Language Model (SLM), InkubaLM, has been reduced in size by an impressive 75%, without ...
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Orange to use OpenAI's latest models to work with African languages

STOCKHOLM, Aug 5 (Reuters) - French mobile operator Orange (ORAN.PA), opens new tab said on Tuesday it plans to use OpenAI's latest AI models with African languages. The benefits of AI models have ...