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An African vision of artificial intelligence
Tech pioneers favour models suited to specific tasks that use little compute
TL;DRAI
Nigerian entrepreneur Adekanmbi advocates lean, multilingual African AI: locally-fluent, speech-focused, optimized for scarce resources versus Silicon Valley's English-heavy models. For tech teams, this challenges the single-model strategy: emerging-market AI decisions now branch between Western foundation models and localized alternatives, reshaping procurement.
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