Africa needs its own Large Language Model

As countries wake up to the fact that AI will play a big role in a country's development and security, they will start to advocate for a localized LLM made by local AI champions like OpenAI in US or Mistral in France.

I believe Africa needs its own LLM trained on African data and created by an African AI champion which could be from the private sector, non-profit or academia.

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