Africa is home to over 2,000 distinct languages and thousands of dialects spoken across 54 countries. However, Africa’s languages are woefully under-represented in mainstream AI tools.

French mobile operator Orange said on Tuesday it plans to use OpenAI's latest AI models with African languages.

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI ...

By Agnes Ansah/Eugenia OtenwaaAccra, March 20, GNA – Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Thursday said the report on extinction of some African Languages within a ...

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 ...

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...

The government of Russia will start teaching three major African languages in select schools in Moscow beginning this year, as the country seeks to deepen ties with the continent, in the face of ...

More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment at France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language.