These open-source AI models will also be provided externally by Orange with a free license for non-commercial use such as for public health, public education, and many other services. Orange intends to help drive AI innovation in these regional languages including by collaborating on these new AI models with local startups and other technology companies,

LAGOS — French telecoms company Orange plans to partner with Meta and OpenAI to develop new artificial intelligence models trained on African languages.

Orange will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI Large Language Models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday.

The partnership wants to include West African languages into large language models (LLMs) for artificial intelligence

Orange announced on Tuesday it is partnering with OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to incorporate regional languages in Africa that are currently not understood by any GenAI model.

OpenAI have partnered with France-based telecom company Orange (OTC:ORANY) to train artificial intelligence models in African languages. The partnership shows how the reach of AI continues to grow as the plan targets two West African regional languages,

Orange plans to partner with OpenAI and Meta to introduce open-source AI models for African languages. Takeaway Points Orange to partner with OpenAI and Meta to introduce open-source AI models for African languages.

Orange has struck a multi-year partnership with OpenAI in Europe that will give the French telecoms operator access to pre-release AI models, group chief artificial intelligence officer Steve Jarrett said on Wednesday.

OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc. will begin training artificial intelligence programs on African languages, addressing a shortage of models for the continent’s thousands of dialects.

The nonprofit AI research organization Ai2 has released a new family of models, OLMo 2, that are completely reproducible.