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Nigeria has launched a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot designed to help citizens access government information and services, in one of the country’s biggest public sector AI projects so far.
Meta built the chatbot called GovGuide Nigeria in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy (FMCIDE), the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR), and local AI company Publica AI.
Announced on Thursday during Meta’s Economic Impact report launch in Nigeria, the platform uses Meta’s open-source Llama AI models to provide government service information through a multilingual voice and text interface available on the web.
The launch also underscores Meta’s broader push to expand the reach of its open-source AI models across emerging markets, particularly in Africa. Its No Language Left Behind (NLLB-200) model now supports more than 50 African languages—roughly twice the coverage offered by most traditional translation systems.
