African languages for AI: the project that’s gathering a huge new dataset

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and ...
Leadership

MTN Group Funds AI Language Inclusion, Backs Nigeria’s Multilingual Dataset Initiative

MTN Group is funding Artificial Intelligence (AI) Language Inclusion to support Nigeria’s initiative to develop datasets for ...
Yahoo

When did humans first start to speak? How language evolved in Africa

When and where did human speech evolve? Research carried out for this study indicates that the first speech sounds were uttered about 70,000 years ago, and not hundreds of thousands or millions of ...
Yahoo

Researchers work to bridge AI language gap in Africa

Researchers are trying to bridge the access gap for non-English speaking Africans using AI by releasing the largest known dataset of African languages. The African Next Voices project collected 9,000 ...
The Nation Newspaper

MTN Group to support African languages research for AI

MTN Group has taken up a call to action from Nigeria to support the collection of datasets of African languages. These are required to develop the continent’s own large language models (LLM) to power ...
CBS News

Trump praises Liberia's president on his mastery of English — his native tongue and the African nation's official language

Washington — President Trump complimented the president of Liberia during a White House meeting on Wednesday on his English-speaking skills, despite English being the official language of the West ...
Gothamist

NYC’s first African worker-owned language cooperative is open for business

A novel, worker-owned cooperative serving the language needs of New York City’s growing African immigrant community from within is officially up and running. Afrilingual claims to be the first African ...