Cape Town ETC

UCT develops AI model for all 11 South African languages

UCT researchers have developed a new AI language model trained across South Africa’s 11 official written languages, marking a ...
CNN

Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them?

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 ...
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African languages for AI: The project that's gathering a huge new dataset

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 ...
UNESCO

African languages, the blind spot of AI

Researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), specializing in the study of digital technologies and their impact on the African labour market. Recently, a Kenyan ...
Princeton University

Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.

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 ...
The Conversation

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

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 ...