Neo Mokono

R&D in AI. Africa let’s work

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

In case I take the wrong off-ramp 😭

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Roadster by launching it off a ramp before the car flipped in midair and safely landed on the ground.

The car is a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX.

One of the most insane things I've ever seen.

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

We still connect to linux VMs. macOS just wraps linux well. And that’s besides the ecosystem

[Surendar @Surendar__05]

Genuine question:

If Linux is powerful.
Linux is flexible.
Linux is made for developers.

So why do so many of us still pick macOS?

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

@alexandr_wang @dtrinh lmao

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

@Bhuzubhuzu1 @MathonsiMarceli @mr_shimmy I’ll be there😁

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

I’m watching this tomorrow 😁

[ISHMAEL 🏴‍☠️🇿🇦 @mr_shimmy]

South Africa has the best Pilots in the world. Americans will think this is AI. 🔥🔥🔥

[Isheanesu Misi @thisisisheanesu]

$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.

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

I need a round 2 with Tokenisers for RSA languages. I know so much more now

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

See opportunity for AI compute https://t.co/P72cmBCK0E

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

@dezizuoo “Farrr” is crazy 😅

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

@opinion_black @___TheGOOdWitch Lol this is why students in the same class get completely different results. Some students refuse listen 😅

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

I’ve thought of this! So cool🥹

[Solvaix @Solvaix]

$31 MILLION HOTEL. EVERY PIPE AND WIRE MAPPED IN ADVANCE. BUILT BY TYPING SENTENCES INSTEAD OF PLACING THEM BY HAND.

A 190-room hotel needed its ductwork, plumbing, electrical, and fire suppression modeled and coordinated before construction could start.

The design team connected Kimi K3 to their modeling software through MCP, then had it read photos of the blueprints alongside plain English descriptions of each system and build the model directly instead of placing every component by hand.

Old process: 3 engineers, 6 weeks, around $47,000.

New process: 1 engineer confirming the AI's output, 9 days, roughly $10,500 combined, engineer's time plus AI compute.

Coordinated models finished this way cut change orders by 60 to 80 percent once construction begins.

See the article below for a smaller example of the Kimi K3 + Blender MCP workflow.

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

@svpino I didn’t know they’re doing that. Mind dropping a trusted source discussing this?

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

Busy minimising cross-entropy

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

I’ve came up with quite a cool way to take in the info. This is a start to becoming a postgrad A+ student 🧐

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

I’m currently doing a module on hyper heuristics. Can’t wait to practice the jargon and speak like a real CS head

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

Ground work

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

P = NP

[Neo Mokono @neomokono]

I am learning as much as I can so I can contribute more. Exciting times

[JNS @_devJNS]

software engineers in the 60s.

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

The grind never ends.