A great improvement, as millions of people throughout the continent will now have greater access to tools like AI Overviews ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

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From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life -- as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies ...

Google adds African languages to AI search tools By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 06 Mar 2026The 13 languages were selected based on strong and growing search usage across the continent. (Image: ...

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 ...

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 computer ...

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For decades, the internet has had a language problem. Its architecture, its logic, its defaults have been shaped by many dominant tongues, and everyone else was left to adapt. In Sub-Saharan Africa, a ...

Vukosi Marivate is a Co-Founder of Lelapa AI. DSFSI is funded by the Gates Foundation, Meta, Google.org, ABSA (for the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science). Vukosi is a co-founder of the Deep Learning ...