Meghan McCormick is a Ghana-based entrepreneur covering women building high-impact organizations across the African continent. She's written about Ghana's successful 'Year of Return', entrepreneurs moving to Africa to launch businesses, and women leading the continent's burgeoning tech scene.
the company announced, “OpenAI and Orange have signed an agreement that will provide Orange with direct access to OpenAI’s models, available for the first time in Europe with data processing and hosting in European data centers, enabling Orange to work on improving existing solutions across its footprint.” While the company is a major player in the communications space in Europe, most of their growth is coming from their African and Middle East subsidiaries.
Much attention has been given to how LLMs and “Gen-AI” will transform how we live and work, but as long as it’s only available in the most popular languages the most vulnerable people will be left behind. In Senegal where Wolof is spoken more widely than French, the ability for a farmer to ask a question about a crop or an entrepreneur to get support analyzing their books by speaking to ChatGPT in Wolof will be a radical improvement in access to information and analysis.
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