Africa's AI moment has arrived — this 1.5B model built from scratch for 12 African languages beats Google, Meta, and Alibaba while being 8x smaller

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by TechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff at 23 Sept, 21:25 UTC

MORENA is a 1.5B African language model that beats larger rivals on benchmarks while requiring substantially less computing power.

consumer

Sources

• T2Africa's AI moment has arrived — this 1.5B model built from scratch for 12 African languages beats Google, Meta, and Alibaba while being 8x smallerTechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff23 Sept, 21:25