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Kenya grants just 5 days for feedback on AI strategy
Kenya's government gives public 5 days to comment on new national AI strategy
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Carrington Malin
Orange to fine-tune LLMs for African colloquial languages
#Africa #LLMs - Global telecommunications operator Orange has partnered with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Meta to incorporate African regional languages…
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Zambia launches AI Strategy to boost jobs & economy
Zambia now joins elite club of African nations with an AI strategy
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Investigative journalist sounds warning bells about AI in the newsroom
The 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference flashed some red warning lights
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Roger Hislop
Google in $5.8 million Africa AI skills acceleration push
Google announced it was committing $5.8 million (R100-million) to AI skills development initiatives across sub-Saharan Africa.
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Roger Hislop
MBZUAI launches Atlas-Chat: AI models for Moroccan Arabic
Chat models poised to advance GenAI accessibility in Moroccan Arabic
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Carrington Malin
Research project taps crowdsourced data to build Algerian LLM
Crowdsourcing is helping to build a comprehensive Daridja language data set
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African Ministers endorse joint continental AI strategy
New AI strategy aims to drive Africa’s inclusive growth
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Kenya to get $1 billion tech investment Boost in Microsoft-G42 deal
UAE and US-backed investment to enable Microsoft Azure East Africa Cloud Region
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