Half a decade ago, our ideas were limited by one question: "is this even possible?"
Now we wake up to breakthroughs every week, from a game built in one night that reached a million players, to doctors catching more cancers with AI, to farmers getting advice in their own language.
This sure is the best time to be alive. Good morning ☀️
⚠️ Important update regarding my X account
My X account was compromised, and I want to explain what happened so there is no confusion.
If you received any unusual DMs, links, or messages from @sameerrr0 during this period, please do not click on anything or share any personal information. Those messages were not sent by me.
I have now regained access to my account with the help of X Support and have taken steps to secure it.
I also want to make one thing completely clear: I was not involved in any scam, fraud, or identity theft. I was the victim of this incident.
I’ll be sharing the relevant screenshots, conversations, and other evidence in this thread to document exactly what happened, including the interaction with the person who impersonated X Support.
@Support / @Safety — I genuinely request that you please review this incident and take appropriate action against the individuals responsible.
A sincere thank you to everyone who warned others, reached out to me, reported the suspicious activity, and supported me while I was dealing with this. I truly appreciate it. 🙏
$40,000 worth of GPUs
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔: the largest African language model ever trained from scratch, at 1.5 billion parameters. Not a fine tune, this was trained from the ground up for Africa. 🌍
Trained on 12 African languages, it beats models from Google, Meta, Alibaba and HuggingFace on African language modelling and translation while being up to 8x smaller.
𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔 doesn't belong to us. The weights are open and free to use commercially, so researchers can build on a base that doesn't treat African languages as an afterthought.
Weights in the comments.
Thanks to @UNDP, @AIHub4SD and CINECA for the GPUs and the support. None of this happens without them.