A new 21-language dataset gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech.

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 ...

From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life -- as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies ...

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...

Google and several African research institutions have launched a new project called WAXAL to help artificial intelligence understand and speak African languages such as Hausa, Luganda, Yoruba, and ...

The global push to develop artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just about computing power or algorithmic breakthroughs, it’s about who gets to speak and who gets left out in the digital future.

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 ...