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NBA Africa's latest accelerator program has recognized five African startups, prominently featuring AI-driven solutions from Morocco and Egypt. The winners will receive incubation…
An all-female Nigerian student team developed ParaVision, an award-winning AI system that rapidly detects malaria and intestinal parasites from microscope images, even offline.…
African policymakers, in collaboration with UNESCO and the World Bank, convened in Guinea to discuss integrating environmental sustainability into national AI strategies. The…
Google and Idris Elba's Akuna Group are investing $1 million to provide generative AI tools, including Gemini, to 100,000 creators across Sub-Saharan Africa. This initiative aims…
Anthropic has drastically increased the subscription costs for its Claude AI services in Nigeria, moving the country from the cheapest to a significantly more expensive market.…
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…
KASI AI, an African startup, is leveraging artificial intelligence to automate customer service, sales, and logistics for businesses operating within Africa's unique social…
A new study reveals that Africa's AI infrastructure is heavily shaped by global investment, with $12.7 billion flowing into projects concentrated in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria,…
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…
Nigerian payment giant Paystack has launched an AI-powered checkout system, Paystack Index, enabling consumers to complete transactions using AI agents. This innovation targets…
A Kenyan AI startup, WayaWaya, has been embroiled in a years-long public dispute, vehemently denying claims by another African tech company, Ajua, that it was acquired. This…
African stakeholders are actively pushing for the development of human-centered AI and robust data governance frameworks across the continent. This initiative aims to ensure that…
A Nigerian expert, Nwanegbo, received the Africa Digital Award in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, recognizing significant contributions to AI on the continent.…
