Orange has engaged OpenAI to develop AI in African languages
- Orange will be partnered with OpenAI and Zuckerberg's company
- Together, they will create customized AI models for the region
- The models will understand regional African languages
- The new models will be based on versions of Whisper and Llama
- These models can be customized for specific tasks
- So far, most systems do not recognize the languages of the region
- Right now, large companies are training AI on data from the US
- Therefore, AI can lose important contextual data
- This includes, for example, cultural and linguistic specifics
- Orange models will start to understand two languages at the beginning of 2025
- It's about Wolof and Pulaar, which are spoken by 16 million and 6 million people
- They are spoken in Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania and others
- New models will be available under a free license