Jonathan Dalrymple

Technologist, Sinophile, Armchair Economist & Global Traveller.

[Hiroshi Matsuura @AmbJPN_Kenya]

The 2nd of the Japan-Kenya food match series. Slow-cooked nyama choma vs Lightly-roasted Teppan-yaki: this comparison was a good opportunity for us to learn the strength of each. The next one will follow soon.

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@MiddlemanMr You had me scared as I have the 2.5NA and get around 12-14KM/L when I am observing all the traffic laws 😇

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@Guk Stay tuned, driving back next month

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

Day 6 of the EA road trip.

Kisumu - Kampala via Busia.

~350km marathon over about 7 hours.

Highlights:
- Convincing the Kenyan border agent that our son was actually ours
- My wife sweet talking police IYKUK

That completes our 1100km journey from Nairobi to Kampala!

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

Day 5 of the ea road trip

Last day in kisumu. Visited the impala park, and Atella beach resort.

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

Day 4 of the EA road trip.

Went to Kakamega Forest, and then stopped for dinner at Dunga beach, Kisumu. ~100km

Averaging ~13km/L, 640km covered so far.

🇰🇪 🐟

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@Quan Any repercussions if you decide to not donate?

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@Onjerika Same thing happened to me last year. I think this is the price you pay when you dont lipa kitu kidigo

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

Day three of the EA road trip.

Njoro to Kisumu ~200km Via kericho.

Stopped by a couple of tea factories, and had a picnic amongst the tea bushes.

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

Day 2 of the East african road trip.

We stayed njoro for a couple of nights. Had a small picnic at Lord Egerton Castle. Lovely grounds, shame the house is in a bad way.

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@abhay You know, my german club is Schalke. 😈

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

Day one of the East african road trip. Nairobi - Njoro via Narok. ~240km.

[nisten @nisten]

Basically if you're vibecoding at a coffee shop and I'm also there with deepseek api running I can plant a backdoor and take all your company IP, spread to others over your tailscale, drain you APIs and subscription quotas, take all your docs& auth seshions without you noticing.

[Lahfir ▲ @mdlahfir]

if you're on a mac and want computer use without the agent touching your personal stuff, here's how i do it

run agent-desktop inside a macOS VM. Apple's Virtualization framework boots a full guest in a window, and the agent only sees what's inside it.

you keep working on your mac and your agents runs inside the VM

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@joseph_carney @nfarina Here i was thinking i was the only person who took pics of my Laptop in random locations!

[Wole @wolefizzy]

They said African languages were too fragmented, too complex and too commercially insignificant to build advanced AI for.

We disagreed. So we built it.

64 languages. 166 voices. 3 billion parameters. ONE model.

Today, we are unveiling STORM-Ensemble 3.0, the most capable multilingual speech synthesis model we have built at PlotWeaver.

From Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin to Swahili, Amharic, Wolof, Zulu, Xhosa and dozens more, STORM-Ensemble 3.0 generates speech across 64 languages, with 166 distinct speaker voices.

Every voice you hear is generated by our model, not a prerecorded sample.

But the real breakthrough isn't the numbers.

It's what becomes possible when this technology is in the hands of people who can build with it.

-African filmmakers distributing stories across languages.
-Banks and telcos serving customers in their mother tongues.
-Education platforms reaching more children.
-Developers building voice AI products without starting from scratch.

We are not building AI for African languages simply to prove it can be done. We are building the infrastructure to make our languages commercially viable at global scale.

Next week, I will be speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua about unlocking the Commonwealth's creative potential. This launch is a practical demonstration of that ambition.

Africa must not simply consume the future of AI. We must build, own and shape the infrastructure that powers it.

Watch the video. Listen to the voices. Imagine what's possible.

Introducing STORM-Ensemble 3.0.

PlotWeaver. Build Once. Speak Every Language.

#PlotWeaver #STORMEnsemble #VoiceAI #AfricanLanguages

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@suhailpatel @OpenAI Congratulations, and (soft) drinks are on you next time!

Are you planing to stay in the UK or move to the US?

[§aruni @GSaruni]

Last I checked it was 10k per tonne.

-Saloons are between 1.3-1.5 tonnes
-Foresters & CX-5's = 2t
-L Cruisers & Full body SUV's = 3t

[Kenya Railways @KenyaRailways_]

Your vehicle can travel by rail too. Whether it's one vehicle or a fleet our service is ideal for your need.
Kenya Railways Freight Service offers a fast, safe and reliable vehicle haulage services.