{"id":85578,"date":"2024-05-16T19:01:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/?p=85578"},"modified":"2024-05-16T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:02:22","slug":"nigeria-multilingual-large-language-model-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2024\/05\/16\/nigeria-multilingual-large-language-model-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Launches First Multilingual Large Language Model in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GPI-Curation-Corner-Emblem.png\" alt=\"GPI Curation Corner Emblem\" width=\"71\" height=\"99\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-85579\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/nigeria-multilingual-large-language-model-africa.jpg\" alt=\"Nigeria Multilingual Large Language Model Africa\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/nigeria-multilingual-large-language-model-africa.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/nigeria-multilingual-large-language-model-africa-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/>Nine out of fifty-four <a href=\"https:\/\/ecdpm.org\/work\/envisioning-africas-ai-governance-landscape-2024\">African nations<\/a> including Nigeria have drafted National AI strategies representing only a small percentage of African nations eager to thrive in the AI economy.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech during the national AI workshop week, the Nigerian Minister for Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, announced a partnership between the ministry, a local AI company Awarritech, DataDotOrg a global AI company, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), and the National Centre for AI and Robotics (NCAIR) to train five low-resourced Nigerian languages for its first multilingual large language model (LLM).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Empowering Nigeria&#8217;s AI Landscape: Bridging the Gap with Indigenous Language Models<\/h2>\n<p>This collaboration is to ensure Nigeria is not left behind in the thriving AI economy. The AI market has been predicted to hit $0.89 billion by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/outlook\/tmo\/artificial-intelligence\/generative-ai\/africa\">Statista<\/a> in 2024 which is a projected growth of 46.36% per annum. This tool is aimed at developing a stronger representation of Nigerian languages in Artificial Intelligence solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Developing an indigenous LLM such as this, which takes into account local languages and cultural nuances, will make AI more inclusive thereby fostering connections globally.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/techpoint.africa\/2024\/04\/22\/nigeria-launches-multilingual-llm\/#:~:text=Nigeria%20launches%20first%20multilingual%20LLM%20after%20drafting%20initial%20National%20AI%20Strategy,-Abdullah%20Ajibade&amp;text=The%20Nigerian%20government%20has%20announced,Economy's%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20development%20efforts.\">Nigeria\u2019s first multilingual large language model trained in local languages.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine out of fifty-four African nations including Nigeria have drafted National AI strategies representing only a small percentage of African nations eager to thrive in the AI economy. In a speech during the national AI workshop week, the Nigerian Minister for Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, announced a partnership between the ministry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":85579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1847],"tags":[231,144,898,899],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85588,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578\/revisions\/85588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}