Jade Abbott
@alienelf
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CTO and Co-founder @lelapaai | Co-founder @masakhanenlp | Bassist @fmfyband | ๐๐ฟ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined November 2012
In a month, things will quieten down and people will forget #BlackLivesMatter and so will you. Here are some strategies I've learnt on the never-ending journey to make being an ally a way of life ๐โจ A Thread on being a Consistent Ally โจ๐ (1/n)
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๐ฟ๐ฆ to G20: come to our braai. ๐บ๐ฒ: no because "genocide". No one else will come because they like us more ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐บ๐ง๐ท๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ณ๐ซ๐ท๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐น๐ฐ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ท๐บ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐บ๐๐ด๐ฟ๐ฆ: *ignores, signs declaration* ๐๐ฝ ๐บ๐ฒ to ๐ฟ๐ฆ: we h8u, youre not coming to our barbecue. ๐ฟ๐ฆ to ๐บ๐ฒ: dala what you must bra ๐ค๐ฝ
ATTENTION: ALL NEWSROOMS AND EDITORS WEDNESDAY 26, NOVEMBER 2025 PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA NOTES US STATEMENT ON SOUTH AFRICAโS G20 PARTICIPATION* President Cyril Ramaphosa has noted the regrettable statement by President Donald Trump on South Africaโs participation in the 2026 G20
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One of my pet hates is people asking me for a favour to participate in something, and then not having their shit together in terms of comms and expectations. ๐
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FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND
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Celebrating our co-founders Pelonomi Moiloa (@tamati_biskit) and Jade Abbott (@alienelf), named among Africaโs Top 40 Under 40 AI Achievers ๐๐พ Their leadership drives a future where the #GlobalSouth leads with #ResourceEfficientAI built for real-world realities ๐๐พ #AI40Under40
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๐ The future is #Multilingual & #Multimodal! Join the 7th AfricaNLP Workshop at #EACL2026 in Rabat, Morocco ๐ฒ๐ฆ We're bridging the gap for African languages in AI. Submit your paper by Dec 19, 2025! More details here:
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thereโs ai slop and thereโs ai kino. this is ai kino.
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AfroBench-Lite updated results for several frontier models, we cover 14 African languages and 7 tasks in the Lite version. #AfricaNLP @MasakhaneNLP Thanks to @OpenAI , @AnthropicAI and @googlecloud for the API credits. Courtesy @JessicaOjo__
Congratulations @JessicaOjo__ for leading this work and paper acceptance to ACL 2025. Check out AfroBench--our new large scale benchmark for 64 African languages showing the performance of more than 10 LLMs on over 15 tasks and 22 datasets.
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Went live with our largest enterprise yet this week - in 4 days weโve experienced 2000x the load that was estimated for ๐ช These are the best problems to have ๐
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Since Iโm tired of responding individually, hereโs a thread of sources proving white South Africans are not economically excluded: They have the lowest unemployment statistics out of any group. In SA the unemployment rate is 31% for everyone and 35% for Black people. For whites
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I dream of AI tech for Africa where we are the Main Characters during its development, not merely a footnote or an appendix Cuz that is the only way we benefit from the new AI age Anything else is merely smoke & mirrors, a way to keep extracting resources Look beyond the veil
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The reason nearly all VCs are betting against this is that focus and specialization matters OpenAI launched a direct competitor to Granola months ago and no one cares
My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers. App functionality will be added to the foundational models' offerings, because the big players aren't slow incumbents (it is wrong to
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The algorithm is designed to make you feel less than. My son felt it too - asked for an "oldtimey flip phone" to detox from what the internet was doing to his head. We have to listen to how these tools make us feel. @tedx Full talk: https://t.co/fTFu7cmxWZ
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AI is shaping the future โ and African languages deserve to shape it too. A 2025 study shows that over 95% of African languages still lack the digital data required for AI. In other words, the systems defining tomorrow canโt yet hear us, understand us, or speak back to us in our
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