Vambo AI, a startup co-founded by Chido Dzinotyiwei, has been named among the winners of Meta’s Llama Impact Grant. The startup is set to receive $20,000, and will be provided with opportunities for mentorship and engagement with leading figures in the AI field.
A collaboration between Meta and Data Science Africa, the Llama Impact Grant aims to enhance Africa’s artificial intelligence capabilities, with a focus on leveraging Llama, the Meta open source language model.
Vambo AI is one of 5 winners of the grant, with the others being PropelMapper (South Africa), Radease (Nigeria), TeenApp (Uganda), and Easy Read Africa (Rwanda).
Dedicated to the preservation of Africa’s indigenous languages, Vambo AI is at frontlines of African artificial intelligence. The startup recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Cassava Technologies to accelerate the creation and distribution of African-trained language models and related AI systems.
The platform supports translation, transcription, content generation, and intelligent search across over 44 African and 20 global languages.
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