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GSMA, Pleias seek to close African language gap in AI

GSMA, Pleias seek to close African language gap in AI By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 29 Apr 2026GSMA and Pleias mark major step in quest to make AI language models for Africa. (Image source: ...
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GSMA and Pleias Launch Open-Source Model to Correctly Identify 61 African Languages in AI Systems

The GSMA and French AI research company Pleias have released CommonLingua, an open-source language identification model ...
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GSMA and Pleias release LID model to close AI’s African language gap

Billed as the first joint release under the GSMA’s “AI Language Models in Africa, by Africa, for Africa” initiative, CommonLingua is a compact 2-million-parameter open-source LID model covering 334 ...
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Study of 1,700 languages reveals surprising hidden patterns

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...
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AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains

A friend in Indonesia recently told me about a conversation he had with ChatGPT. He had typed a question in Indonesian – Bahasa Indonesia – about how to handle a difficult family dispute. The chatbot ...
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Nigeria’s CardForté Turns Five, Showcasing Impact on Domestic Payment Infrastructure

Kindly share this postFor Nigeria’s rapidly expanding financial sector, the true bottleneck to scaling has rarely been user ...
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Apple Introduces New App Store Subscription Model Allowing 12-Month Payment Plan

The technology company said the new model is designed to reduce the upfront cost burden on users while providing developers with more predictable, long-term revenue streams.Under the arrangement, ...