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The Real African Language Behind Wakanda — And Why Black Panther Chose It

When Black Panther hit theaters in 2018, the excitement was palpable. Aside from the fact that it was the first big-budget superhero movie with an all-Black cast, its Afrofuturist appeal, stunning ...
Nature

Better data sets won’t solve the problem — we need AI for Africa to be developed in Africa

In May 2023 Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI in San Francisco, California, embarked on a 17-city world tour to promote artificial intelligence (AI) tools. One of the stops in the first week of ...
Reuters

Orange to use OpenAI's latest models to work with African languages

STOCKHOLM, Aug 5 (Reuters) - French mobile operator Orange (ORAN.PA), opens new tab said on Tuesday it plans to use OpenAI's latest AI models with African languages. The benefits of AI models have ...
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Africa’s First Multilingual Small Language Model Gets Even Smaller - Thanks to Top African Innovator

In a major leap for inclusive and accessible artificial intelligence, Africa’s first multilingual Small Language Model (SLM), InkubaLM, has been reduced in size by an impressive 75%, without ...
The New York Times

How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

Standup comedian Jacques Silvère Bah, known as Le Magnific, played with French and African words and accents at a humor festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in February. Arlette Bashizi for The New York ...
Detroit Free Press

Many Black Americans speak African American English. But is it embraced in schools?

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...