The GSMA has announced two major initiatives aimed at closing Africa’s digital divide — one focused on smartphone affordability and…
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In a continent where more than 40 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs) remain offline, Nigerian startup Kofounda is breaking…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has unveiled N-ATLAS, an open-source multilingual and multimodal large language model designed to support Yoruba,…
MTN Group has pledged support for Nigeria’s effort to collect African language datasets to develop the continent’s own large language…
A team of African researchers has unveiled African Next Voices, the largest known AI-ready dataset for African languages, aiming to…
Orange is expanding its partnership with OpenAI to deploy two advanced open-weight reasoning models across its data centers, aiming to…
Born in the chaos of Nigeria’s overburdened hospitals, Intron is now one of Africa’s most promising voice AI startups -…
Botlhale AI, a South African startup founded in 2019, is helping enterprises understand what’s said in the 70% of customer…
Africa’s first multilingual small language model, InkubaLM, has been compressed by 75% without losing performance – making it more efficient…