3 Minutes With 19 March 2024 The Ghanaian founder challenging Google Paul Azunre welcomes Big Tech making AI tools in African languages: “It is good to have some competition.”
3 Minutes With 27 February 2024 The CEO who believes Africans must make their own AI tools Pelonomi Moiloa explains why making AI widely available requires building language models that need less data and other resources.
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