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A new benchmark, NaijaFacts, reveals that large language models (LLMs) have significant knowledge gaps regarding Nigeria-specific and broader African factual information,…
The ALTO dataset is a groundbreaking initiative to combat tech-facilitated gender-based violence in African French and Swahili, developed in collaboration with CSOs in Francophone…
The Africa Young Innovators for Health Award is calling for young African innovators to propose AI-driven solutions to improve access to family planning across the continent,…
This study offers crucial insights into developing robust AI speech recognition for low-resource African languages, evaluating different models and adaptation strategies. It…
Enza Capital has launched a new specialized fund exclusively for AI and AI-enabled startups in Africa, aiming to adapt AI technologies to local conditions. This initiative seeks…
Google has launched "Skilling Africa with Google," a new learning hub aiming to train 3 million people across Africa in digital and AI skills by 2030. The platform is designed to…
Moroccan HealthTech firm ABA Life has received a $40 million investment to expand its AI-powered sovereign health solutions. The company aims to scale its integrated healthcare…
Africa's ambitions in AI are constrained by the need for affordable and accessible computing infrastructure, including GPUs and data centers. Initiatives like the World Bank's…
Talent Nation, a Nigerian-founded AI engineering talent platform, has secured pre-seed funding to train and deploy one million African AI engineers over the next ten years. This…
This research provides critical insights into optimizing AI architectures for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in low-resource African languages. It offers practical guidance…
Nigerian-founded Talent Nation has secured pre-seed funding to train and deploy one million African AI engineers, addressing the continent's talent gap and positioning it as a key…
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, co-founder of Andela and Flutterwave, has launched Talent Nation with the goal of training one million African AI engineers over the next ten years. This…
Talent Nation, co-founded by Nigerian and South African entrepreneurs, aims to train and place one million AI engineers from Africa globally within ten years. This initiative…
Talent Nation, an African-led startup, has secured pre-seed funding to train one million AI engineers from Africa for global deployment. This initiative aims to position Africa as…
This research is a foundational study on safety alignment for large language models specifically for Hausa, a major West African language. It introduces a new Hausa safety dataset…
AfriGuard is a new, culturally grounded multilingual dataset for studying harmful intent and refusal behavior across 10 African languages and English. This work is critical for…
African AI research on climate-related health issues primarily focuses on localized, reactive solutions for infectious diseases, contrasting sharply with the global trend towards…
AfriGuard is a new multilingual dataset specifically designed to address safety and refusal challenges in large language models for ten African languages. This research highlights…
Nigeria has put forward a proposal for African nations to combine their computing resources, allowing for large-scale AI research and development across the continent. This move…
This research introduces SunflowerASR, a new speech recognition model optimized for low-resource African languages using Group Relative Policy Optimisation. It demonstrates…
Luminate CEO Melanie Hui warned African nations at the Build 2026 Conference in Abuja that they risk exploitation in the global AI economy if they do not secure genuine ownership…
AfriBED is a new speech recognition bias evaluation dataset created for two low-resource African languages, Bemba and Nyanja. This dataset enables the detection and estimation of…
Vodacom and Bowmans have published a policy paper advocating for African-centric AI regulation that accounts for the continent's unique social and economic conditions. The…
A South African AI platform, Leova, has gained international recognition for its ability to accelerate clinical trial database preparation, addressing a global bottleneck.…
