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African language app wins Llama Impact Grant

Vambo AI, a South African app building AI infrastructure across more than 60 languages, is one of 5 regional winners of $20,000 in funding from Meta.

Researchers work to bridge AI language gap in Africa

ChatGPT recognizes only 10-20% of requests written in Hausa, a language spoken by more than 90 million people across West Africa.
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AI programs often exclude African languages. These researchers have a plan to fix that.

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Languages in Africa : multilingualism, language policy, and education / edited by Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer

"Contributors to this volume came together to discuss the problems and promise of African multilingualism at a joint meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics and the Georgetown ...