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2025: African Researchers Build Landmark AI Dataset to Close Language Gap and Boost Digital Inclusion
Lelapa.ai (South Africa)

Organization & Developments: Lelapa.ai

Parents

*Artificial intelligence (AI) that can transcribe, analyze, and integrate multilingual text with sentiment analysis
*Creates deeply connected customer experiences for local African languages with the Vulavula API.
*Developer of language models (LLM)s to identify languages and speakers automatically and convert speech to text.
*Models currently support local languages in Africa and the list is continually growing.
2024: Johannesburg-based Lelapa AI, launched InkubaLM in September 2024. It’s a ‘small language model’ (SLM) focused on five African languages with broad reach: Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, isiZulu and isiXhosa.
2024: Lelapa AI launches Africa’s first AI large language model
2024: South Africa _ InkubaLM _ LelapaAI startup _ It is a Small Language Model with 0.4B parameters, trained on 2.4B tokens from 5 African languages: Swahili, Hause, Yoruba, isiZulu and isiXhosa, plus Engish and French. Focused on machine translation, question-answering, and sentiment analysis.