OpenAI, Meta, and Orange plan to train AI models on African languages, starting with Wolof and Pulaar, addressing a shortage for Africa's thousands of dialects
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Vodafone and Microsoft sign a 10-year, $1.5B deal to develop AI, digital payments, IoT, and other businesses; Vodafone will use OpenAI tech for customer service
As someone with family ties to African continent … Satya Nadella : We're delighted to partner with Vodafone to apply the latest cloud and AI technology to enhance the customer experience for hundreds ...
Universities across Europe are intensifying efforts to create companies around tech developed in their labs, mirroring the model pioneered by US universities
Oxford and other schools aim to mirror U.S. rivals, moving innovations from the lab into commercial use Tweets: @gdibner , @workmj , @emeka_okafor , @bcjlondon , and @mggrim Tweets: Gil Dibner / @gdib...
A look at Deep Learning Indaba, an AI conference founded in 2017 that brings together researchers from across Africa, who often can't attend Western conferences
for better or worse. http://read.medium.com/8hGkBha Morgan Jerkins / @morganjerkins : My colleague @davegershgorn reports on the growing A.I industry on the African continent, the polarizing views of ...