How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...

Lagos-based software developer and former music producer Philip Olajide-Philips founded Korin AI (Korin means “to sing” in Yoruba), an AI music platform, to provide affordable studio time. Korin AI ...

From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life -- as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies ...

The Masakhane African Languages Hub has partnered with Microsoft AI for Good Lab, the Gates Foundation, and Google.org to ...

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...

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A team at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) language model trained specifically on South Africa's 11 official written languages - helping close a gap ...