OpenRay

AI research foundation driving local innovation in Africa with open-source AI

[OpenRay @openrayai]

Exciting News: https://t.co/C5WLS7zWNU is Live 🚀

We are thrilled to announce https://t.co/C5WLS7zWNU. A public-benefit initiative dedicated to democratising AI innovation for African businesses leveraging Open Source AI.

At https://t.co/C5WLS7zWNU, we believe AI should be accessible, transparent, and ethically used, tailored to local needs.

By leveraging Open Source AI, we empower businesses to innovate smarter, faster, securely, and cost-effectively.

Learn more at https://t.co/VNeEkNSjjZ

[OpenRay @openrayai]

Ekō is live today 🚀

Ekō is context-aware security proxy for AI applications in African regulated domains.

Built Africa-first: African financial and identity data covered out of the box, extensible to your own company formats.

[OpenRay @openrayai]

If you ship AI features in banking, health, identity, or any regulated workflow, it's worth five minutes.
Playground: https://t.co/9LCs5lqLc9
Write-up: https://t.co/xW008tzpmL
GitHub: https://t.co/1Vja9HKBhd

[OpenRay @openrayai]

Ekō is live today 🚀

Ekō is context-aware security proxy for AI applications in African regulated domains.

Built Africa-first: African financial and identity data covered out of the box, extensible to your own company formats.

[OpenRay @openrayai]

Redact, or tokenise within a session.

The same BVN maps to the same token, so the model still gets coherent context and your workflow still works.

Credentials are always redacted, never tokenised. A deliberate safety floor.

[OpenRay @openrayai]

In unstructured text, two Nigerian identity numbers can look identical to a generic PII detector.

Same length. Same shape. Different privacy implications.

Privacy Filter Nigeria: context-aware PII detection, tuned for Nigeria.

[OpenRay @openrayai]

It's recall-oriented and will over-redact some benign numbers. We're upfront about that.

We welcome feedback: hard negatives, OCR noise, label disagreements, formats we're missing.

See more: https://t.co/HKjPVh8Q4J

[OpenRay @openrayai]

In unstructured text, two Nigerian identity numbers can look identical to a generic PII detector.

Same length. Same shape. Different privacy implications.

Privacy Filter Nigeria: context-aware PII detection, tuned for Nigeria.

[OpenRay @openrayai]

Privacy Filter Nigeria is a LoRA adapter on @OpenAI's open-weight Privacy Filter.

Adds five Nigerian identity labels — NIN, BVN, passport, driver's license, voter's card — and retunes the base taxonomy for address formats.

[OpenRay @openrayai]

🚀 Just Published🚀

📢 "The Business Case for Open-Source AI in 2025 for Nigeria" is here!

How can open-source AI unlock innovation, cut costs, and reshape businesses in Nigeria? Find out in our latest publication.

📖 Read → https://t.co/vcKKuLn96g

[DeepSeek @deepseek_ai]

🚀 Day 1 of #OpenSourceWeek: FlashMLA

Honored to share FlashMLA - our efficient MLA decoding kernel for Hopper GPUs, optimized for variable-length sequences and now in production.

✅ BF16 support
✅ Paged KV cache (block size 64)
⚡ 3000 GB/s memory-bound & 580 TFLOPS compute-bound on H800

🔗 Explore on GitHub: https://t.co/4JvJTn5HX2

[OpenRay @openrayai]

Exciting News: https://t.co/C5WLS7zWNU is Live 🚀

We are thrilled to announce https://t.co/C5WLS7zWNU. A public-benefit initiative dedicated to democratising AI innovation for African businesses leveraging Open Source AI.

At https://t.co/C5WLS7zWNU, we believe AI should be accessible, transparent, and ethically used, tailored to local needs.

By leveraging Open Source AI, we empower businesses to innovate smarter, faster, securely, and cost-effectively.

Learn more at https://t.co/VNeEkNSjjZ