- 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