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Vambo AI Releases MORENA, a 1.5B Open-Weight Model Trained From Scratch for 12 African Languages

10 October 2026

South African startup Vambo AI has released MORENA, an open-weight 1.5-billion-parameter language model trained from scratch for 12 African languages…

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Browsing: Chido Dzinotyiwei

Vambo AI Releases MORENA, a 1.5B Open-Weight Model Trained From Scratch for 12 African Languages

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