AI in Africa 45
- A Mine, Forty Clinics, Ten Million Downloads: What Open Weights Did for TB Screening
- Tuesday AI Update: 27 October 2026 — Anthropic files for an IPO and shows the receipts
- Small AI by design: ten Kenyan startups and the offline-first constraint
- 44,000 Seeds, One Open Map: What the Dryland Sorghum Pangenome Changes for Breeders
- Tuesday AI Update: 20 October 2026 — Washington bans DeepSeek from federal systems
- Twelve Hours and 1,239 Certificates: What Kenya's Civil-Service AI Course Delivered
- Same Script, Fifty-One Answers: What Morocco's Open Darija Release Actually Solves
- The Model Was Not the Intervention: Reading Tanzania's Retina Screening Trial
- Tuesday AI Update: Oct 13, 2026 — Meta's First Frontier Model Arrives Behind a Paywall
- Africa's Outbreak Radar Reached 44 of 47 States: Reading What the Expansion Buys
- The Bottleneck Is Adoption, Not Innovation: Reading Nigeria's AI Maternal Health Multiplier
- The Tokenizer Was the Point: Measuring MORENA, an Open 1.5B Model for 12 African Languages
- Tuesday AI Update: Oct 6, 2026 — Anthropic's S-1 Leaks as the US–China Gap Narrows to 3%
- Sold to the Bank, Runs in the Bank: What Egypt's $13M Decisioning Round Actually Buys
- 300 Deaf Students, One Interpreter: What It Takes to Scale African Sign Language AI
- Prequalified: WHO Opens Its Procurement List to AI TB Screening Software
- Tuesday AI Update: Sep 29, 2026 — OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra Over Safety
- Four Times the Fields: The Delivery Stack Behind the Google–Gates Farmer AI Plan
- The $1 Billion AI Bet: What the Goalkeepers Report Funds, and How to Read Its Four Numbers
- Tuesday AI Update: Sep 22, 2026 — Claude Now Leads 26% of Anthropic's Own R&D
- Nineteen Languages, One Download: Reading the TranslatePsy-AfriSLM Release Past the Headline
- Certified in Europe, Judged at the Health Post: What a Class IIb CE Mark Really Buys Primary Care
- Tuesday AI Update: Sep 15, 2026 — Washington Names Six Chinese Labs in Model-Distillation Crackdown
- Tuesday AI Update: Sep 8, 2026 — Mistral Raises €3B in Record European AI Round
- Tuesday AI Update: Sep 1, 2026 — OpenAI's Report Confirms Its Model Breached Hugging Face
- Tuesday AI Update: Aug 25, 2026 — OpenAI Slows Astra Over Critical Cyber Capabilities
- Tuesday AI Update: Aug 11, 2026 — AI Now Behind 55% of African Cybercrime, INTERPOL Reports
- Edge AI: Running Models on Mobile in African Markets
- AI at Industrial Scale: Dangote's $46B Bet and the Machine Learning Opportunity
- AI for African Creative Industries: Music, Film & Content in Local Languages
- AI for Agriculture & Climate in Africa: Predicting the Unpredictable
- AI for African Fintech: Credit Scoring, Mobile Money & Fraud Detection
- AI in African Education: Personalised Learning for a Young Continent
- Global AI Roundup: July 2026
- AI for African Healthcare: From Diagnostics to Drug Discovery
- Africa's AI Urgency: Closing the Gap Before It Widens
- Africa's AI Spring: Google Lab, Startup Funding & the Talent Wave
- Low-Resource NLP: Transfer Learning and Data Augmentation for African Languages
- The State of AI in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
- Building and Deploying AI in Constrained Environments: Low-Bandwidth and Edge Solutions
- AI for Agriculture in Kenya: Crop Detection, Weather Prediction, and Food Security
- African AI Communities: Masakhane, Lacuna Fund, and Local Dataset Initiatives
- AI for Mobile-First Markets: On-Device ML with TensorFlow Lite
- Swahili NLP: Building Language Models for African Languages
- Three New Series: Building AI Agents, African AI, and AI Infrastructure