Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is one of the most practical breakthroughs in applied LLM engineering. By grounding model outputs in retrieved documents rather than relying solely on parametri...
The balance of power in large language models shifted decisively in 2026. With Kimi K3 released as open weights, alongside GLM-5.2, Llama 4, Qwen 3, and DeepSeek V3, the era of proprietary-only fro...
Africa’s creative industries are experiencing a digital renaissance, and artificial intelligence is emerging as an unexpected but powerful collaborator. From Lagos to Nairobi, Johannesburg to Dar e...
From Kenyan farms to continental scale In our earlier post on AI for Agriculture in Kenya, we explored how ML-powered disease detection, yield prediction, and smart irrigation are already transfor...
Africa leapfrogged the legacy banking system entirely rather than adopting it. While the rest of the world debates open banking APIs, the continent quietly built the world’s most advanced mobile mo...
The education challenge of a generation Africa has the youngest population on Earth: over 60% of its 1.5 billion people are under 25. By 2030, the continent will be home to more young people enter...
A world of AI in four weeks July 2026 was a defining month for artificial intelligence, driven less by any single breakthrough than by the sheer breadth of activity across every inhabited continen...
Africa faces a disproportionate share of the global disease burden. It has only 3% of the world’s healthcare workers and a fraction of its medical infrastructure. Artificial intelligence is beginni...
A wake-up call On July 25, 2026 (today), Business Day published a sobering analysis: Africa risks falling behind in the AI race. The numbers are stark. Vendor lock-in and costly licensing mean Afr...
On 20 July 2026, e& UAE (formerly Etisalat) and Core42, the sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure arm of G42, announced a partnership to launch Sovereign AI Compute. The service promises on-dem...