Doing Nothing Is Expensive: Why AI Is No Longer Optional in African Call Centres
Missed opportunities are costing more than you think. Every missed call, every frustrated customer, every agent stretched to the limit – it […]
Africa’s First Multilingual Small Language Model (SLM) Gets Even Smaller – Thanks to Top African Innovators
Africa’s first multilingual Small Language Model (SLM), InkubaLM, has now been shrunk by up to 75%, without sacrificing performance. That’s a big […]
A Global First: How a New Sustainable Data Framework & License Are Transforming Language AI
AI shouldn’t just extract from Africa, it should empower it. Despite the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, African languages remain vastly underrepresented […]
Top African Language AI Trends to Watch in 2025
The African Language AI Revolution As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, one of the most exciting frontiers is the development of AI […]
Celebrating Excellence: Atnafu Tonja and Benjamin Rosman Win Prestigious Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024
Celebrating Innovation at Lelapa AI! We are proud to announce that two of our exceptional team members, Atnafu Tonja and Benjamin Rosman, […]
InkubaLM: A small language model for low-resource African languages
As AI practitioners, we are committed to forging an inclusive future through the power of AI. While AI holds the promise of […]
Lelapa AI Zines
The Lelapa AI Zines are a collection of thoughts and ideas that represent what Lelapa AI stands for and what we want […]
Comparing Africa-centric Models to OpenAI’s GPT3.5
While language models, such as ChatGPT, are impressive, they often show limited capabilities for low resourced languages. We decided to toy with ChatGPT and see how it performed on Zulu
Responsible AI framework for Data Science Practitioners
As a data practitioners with concern for humanity we have been excited by the responsible AI conversations that have popped up over […]
Hindering the Expansion of Problematic AI
I am an engineer by training three times. The third time was in Japan. On one September my father came to visit […]