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Building AI for the languages Africa speaks

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Our Purpose

We believe the languages people think in should not limit what technology can do for them. African Languages Lab is dedicated to building the data, research and products that bring African languages into modern AI.

By The Numbers

100B+

Curated tokens

100B+

Curated tokens

20,000+

Hours of validated speech

20,000+

Hours of validated speech

70+

Languages collected

70+

Languages collected

30+

Languages in production

30+

Languages in production

How We Work

Data is our moat

Compute and talent are widely available. Data is the bottleneck. We treat collection and validation as research problems in their own right

Data is our moat

Compute and talent are widely available. Data is the bottleneck. We treat collection and validation as research problems in their own right

We're a diverse team

Linguists, engineers, designers and operators, working with collaborators at universities across Africa, the United States and Canada.

We're a diverse team

Linguists, engineers, designers and operators, working with collaborators at universities across Africa, the United States and Canada.

We publish what we find

Our research is peer-reviewed and presented at venues including ACL, and we evaluate on public benchmarks so the results can be checked.

We publish what we find

Our research is peer-reviewed and presented at venues including ACL, and we evaluate on public benchmarks so the results can be checked.

We contribute back

We added 62 African languages to Common Crawl, which any team can now train on.

We contribute back

We added 62 African languages to Common Crawl, which any team can now train on.

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From ceo

"Compute and talent are the easy part. African Language is the bottleneck. So we spent a decade collecting it."

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