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Maplerad, a Lagos-founded payment network, is tackling Africa's high remittance costs by developing real-time payment infrastructure that bypasses traditional banking…
Inner Circle, a new platform founded by Andrew Kibe, is specifically designed to help African creators monetize their content by overcoming the limitations of global payment…
ATLAS Umoja AI is a pan-African initiative launched by the GSMA and five African governments to develop AI models that support African languages, scaling Nigeria's N-ATLAS model…
The ATLAS Umoja AI initiative has been launched by African governments and technology partners to accelerate AI development in African languages, aiming to embed local cultures…
African telecommunications ministers have launched ATLAS Umoja AI, a pan-African initiative focused on developing AI models for African languages. This collaborative effort,…
The GSMA has launched ATLAS Umoja AI, a pan-African initiative to bolster collaboration on African language AI, directly supporting the Abuja Ministerial Declaration. This effort…
Researchers have developed TTSYoruba, an advanced text-to-speech system specifically for the Yoruba language, a major language spoken across West Africa. This innovation addresses…
Kenya and France are advancing an initiative to establish AI clusters across six African countries, including Kenya, Benin, Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, and South Africa. This program…
This research evaluates leading large language models for machine translation between English and two West African languages, Hausa and Fongbe. It highlights significant…
This research addresses the critical scarcity of digital text data for African languages by developing and evaluating ASR pipelines for Fongbe and Hausa. The project significantly…
A new AI-powered parallel corpus, AfriScience-MT, has been developed to enable scientific communication in six African languages, directly addressing the dominance of colonial…
