Excited to be one of the speakers at this year's Connect virtual conference by @Cohere_Labs. We look forward to seeing a lot of you there.

3 days. Worldwide. Inspiring & starting new research collaborations. Introducing the Connect conference. 🖇️ Join for incredible speakers, including @1vnzh @jpineau1 @mziizm & @ShayneRedford + >20 researchers discussing how collaboration and open science are driving progress. 🚀

The Afri-Aya dataset is now live. 🎉 14 cultures, 14 languages, and we're only getting started. 📌 Afri-Aya dataset: https://t.co/ocxrpEWybC This is the largest human-reviewed dataset for African vision-language models (VLMs) to date, representing the greatest number of

Be sure to check out our NLP Reading Group's session next week on Saturday, September 20th as they welcome @DonatoCrisosto1 for a session on "Model Merging — A Tale of Two Settings" Thanks to @SidYaeger and @va4az for organizing this session🔥 Learn more:

Our Regional Africa Group is looking forward to hosting @paul_okewunmi for a session on "When Typos Break AI: Testing the Limits of LLM Robustness in Low-Resource Languages" on Tuesday, September 16th. Thanks to our program leads @katomubirusteve and @Bronsn4 for organizing this

Ganda Gemma LiteRT model files are finally here 🎉 Run @Crails_Inc Ganda Gemma 1B on-device and completely offline, as with our Swahili Gemma models. 📌 Link to model file: https://t.co/m84ZxIgYeG 📌 Tutorial on how to set it up on your device:

This work accelerates the digitalization of existing Luganda resources and aids in the creation of large-scale datasets, fostering a vibrant AI ecosystem across the region.

Key Performance Insights 🏆 Efficiency Leader: Achieves the highest BLEU-to-parameter ratio (6.99 BLEU per billion parameters) 🚀 Size Advantage: Outperforms Gemma 3 4B (4x larger) by 535% on BLEU score 💎 Competitive Quality: Outperforms GPT-5 Mini by 36% on BLEU score with

Luganda is a major Bantu language of Uganda, spoken by approximately 16 million people worldwide and serving as one of the most widely spoken indigenous languages in the country. Today, over at Crane AI Labs (@Crails_Inc), we introduce the latest addition to the Crane Gemma

Check out the recipes on GitHub to see more examples of how you can use Swahili Gemma today. 👉 All Recipes:

Exciting news! It's time to make Swahili Gemma your own. 🚀 The team has been hard at work creating fine-tuning recipes with @UnslothAI , making it possible for you to specialise Swahili Gemma for your own tasks right from a Colab notebook. Whether you're working on

Join the Scholars Program and become part of a small, collaborative team tackling some of the field's toughest challenges. 🏔️ With dedicated research mentors and the entire lab supporting your growth, you'll have the resources to succeed.

Currently, 34% of Scholars Program applications are from research talent in Africa. 🎉 We look forward to connecting with many of you through the recruitment process! 🌍 Join us to tackle fundamental ML challenges at scale, working alongside world-class researchers & engineers.

Lots of great sessions coming up next week.

Excited to share a game-changing feature for our Swahili Gemma 1B model over at Crane AI Labs (@Crails_Inc ) that you might have missed: You can run it entirely offline, directly on your Android device! 🤯 We were thrilled by the community's reception and wanted to showcase how

Download Ollama: https://t.co/BWKDQRdaFb And run ollama run crane-ai-labs/swahili-gemma-1b That's literally all it takes to try out Swahili Gemma on your laptop today. 🚀

Key Performance Insights 🎯 Efficiency Leader: Achieves the highest BLEU-to-parameter ratio (27.6 BLEU per billion parameters) 🚀 Size Advantage: Outperforms Gemma 3 4B (4x larger) by 153% on BLEU score 💎 Competitive Quality: Achieves 94% of Gemma 3 27B performance with 27x

This work accelerates the digitalization of existing Swahili resources and aids in the creation of large-scale datasets, fostering a vibrant AI ecosystem across the region. To support this, we are also releasing our translated safety datasets (WildJailBreak for five languages:

Swahili is a cornerstone language of East Africa, spoken by over 200 million people globally and ranking among the top 10 most spoken languages in Africa (Actually, the most spoken in Africa). Today, over at Crane AI Labs (@Crails_Inc ) we introduce the first of the Crane Gemma

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