Lelapa AI
lelapa.ai
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Natural Language Processing
Speech & Audio AI
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201-500
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1
Mozilla Ventures
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2022
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Overview
Lelapa AI is a South African research and product company founded in 2022 that builds language technology for African languages. Its Vulavula models provide speech recognition, transcription and translation for languages that global systems handle poorly, aimed at call centres, banks and public services. The company describes its approach as Africa-centric artificial intelligence built by local researchers.
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From Biomedical Engineering to AI Pioneer: How Pelonomi Moiloa Built Lelapa AI for African Languages
Moiloa co-founded Lelapa AI in December 2022 alongside Jade Abbott. The Johannesburg-based research and product lab has since launched InkubaLM, described as
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Lelapa AI intros framework prioritising African languages
The artificial intelligence research and product lab and its collaborators unveil the Esethu Framework, dedicated to AI ethics and inclusion.
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Local AI model is melting pot for African languages
Start-up Lelapa AI introduces InkubaLM, a large language model trained from scratch using 1.9 billion tokens of data for five widely-spoken African languages.
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This company is building AI for African languages
AI models can't understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
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200-500 est. staff