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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When it comes to natural language processing (NLP) research on the African continent, few organisations are doing more than Masakhane. As part of its latest efforts, the Masakhane African Languages ...
This post is part of Global Voices’ April 2026 Spotlight series, “Human perspectives on AI.” This series will offer insight into how AI is being used in global majority countries, how its use and ...
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model developed in South Africa could help millions of people use digital tools in their home languages, tackling a gap that has long left many behind, local ...
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