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[Martin @Ma_rtin_dev]

@TrendifyLabs Follow along. More updates coming.

@coolkid__8| @TrendifyLabs| @asktrendify #CA_AALM #AfricanAI #NLP #IndigenousAI #LLM

[Martin @Ma_rtin_dev]

Everyone is talking about AI for Africa.

Almost nobody is talking about what it actually
takes to build it properly.

Here is what we are doing at @TrendifyLabs with CA ◇ AALM
and why it is harder and more important than most
people realise.

Long Thread 🧵

[Martin @Ma_rtin_dev]

@TrendifyLabs CA-AALM is Trendify's most important work.

Not because it is technically impressive.
Because it is necessary.

Africa has over 2,000 languages.
The AI revolution is happening now.
The window to get the data right is closing.

We are building this properly or not at all.

[Martin @Ma_rtin_dev]

by shrinking communities.

[Martin @Ma_rtin_dev]

What happens to cultures that were never digitised?
Most AI systems are trained on internet data. But a huge percentage of African knowledge was never written online in the first place. It exists in oral histories, ceremonies, ecological practices, proverbs, and languages spoken

[Trendify @TrendifyLabs]

What is CA-AALM?
CA-AALM stands for: Culturally Aware African Language Model.
An Africa-first AI initiative by Trendify focused on building AI systems grounded in African languages, indigenous knowledge, and cultural context.