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Leads
Channel: #geo-regional-africa
Kato Steven Mubiru
Discord : @katostevenmubiru
Bakunga Bronson
Discord : @brons_n
About C4AI Africa
About C4AI Africa
Empowering AI Innovation Across the Continent
Cohere Labs Geo Regional Africa is a vibrant community dedicated to advancing Artificial Intelligence across the African continent. We are part of the global Cohere Labs initiative and are focused on fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and practical AI applications within the African context. Our vision for 2025 is to build a thriving and impactful AI ecosystem in Africa through community engagement, knowledge exchange, project-based initiatives, and strategic collaborations.
Key Areas for 2025
Key Areas for 2025
👥 Community Engagement & Growth: Expanding and energizing our community.
🧑🏫 Knowledge Sharing & Learning: Creating learning and discussion opportunities.
🧑💻 Resource Development & Sharing: Building resources tailored to Africa.
🤝 External Collaboration & Outreach: Connecting with the wider AI ecosystem.
Get Involved and Shape the Future of AI in Africa!
Get Involved and Shape the Future of AI in Africa!
Community Engagement & Growth
Community Engagement & Growth
Join Our Growing Community: Become part of a network of passionate AI enthusiasts, researchers, and practitioners across Africa. Whether you're a seasoned expert or just starting your AI journey, you're welcome! We're building a supportive and collaborative space.
New Member Onboarding: We've created a clear and welcoming onboarding process to help you quickly get oriented and find your place in our community.
Active Participation Encouraged: We value active participation! Contribute to discussions, join projects, share your knowledge, and help us shape the future of AI in Africa.
Knowledge Sharing & Learning
Knowledge Sharing & Learning
Join our monthly sessions: some sessions will feature guest speakers where you can hear from leading African AI researchers about impactful projects and gain insights from experts in industry, academia, and community initiatives. Alternatively, some sessions will be focused on a specific research paper, where we will discuss key concepts, and expand your knowledge.
Global C4AI Network: We collaborate with other C4AI regional groups worldwide, sharing best practices and exploring joint initiatives.
Conference & Workshop Guidance: Get resources and guidance on how to prepare for and maximize your chances of acceptance at top AI conferences.
Resource Development & Sharing
Resource Development & Sharing
African AI Resource Repository: "Access our growing repository of curated AI resources specifically tailored to the African context. Find notebooks, code examples, datasets, links to research, and more."
Showcase Your Projects: "We'll highlight and promote community projects that demonstrate impactful uses of Cohere models and contribute to AI innovation in Africa."
Past Presentations
August 19, 2025: One Tokenizer To Rule Them All: Emergent Language Plasticity via Multilingual Tokenizers
June 17, 2025: Asio Evelyn Patra - Closing The AI Gap
May 21, 2025: Betty Kyalo - Shaping Africa's Ethical AI Governance Future
April 17, 2025: Azeez Saheed Ayanniyi - YarnGPT the building process
March 18, 2025: Ahmad Rufai - Leveraging LLMs for Advanced Drug Form Classification in MARMAR
Feb 20, 2025: Bronson Bakunga - Fine tuning LLMs For Translation of Low Resource East African Languages
Nov 27, 2024: Xingyao Wang - OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
Oct 29, 2024: Zhijing Jin - Can LLMs Achieve Casual Reasoning and Cooperation?
Sep 19, 2024: Amanuel Mersha - DynamicViT: Making Vision Transformer faster through layer skipping
Sept 18, 2024: Jack Morris - Language Model Inversion
Jun 27, 2024: Hellina Hailu Nigatu - Online Experiences of 'Low-Resourced' Language Speakers
Jun 12, 2024: Niklas Muennighoff - Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
May 29, 2024: Jason Lucas - Advancing Low-Resource Multilingual Approaches in the Era of AI
May 15, 2024: Dr. Adaku Uchendu - Attribution and Obfuscation of Deepfake Text Authorship
C4AI - Geo Regional Africa online meet-up (2024-04-16 07:11 GMT-7)April 16, 2024
Mar 21, 2024: Badr AlKhamissi - Investigating Cultural Alignment of LLMs
C4AI - Geo Regional Africa online meet-up (2024-07-09 15:19 GMT+1)July 9, 2024
C4AI - Geo Regional Africa online meet-up (2024-04-02 07:08 GMT-7)Discovering ML Organizations in Africa
Resources
List of Resources
Discord Community: https://share.hsforms.com/10OrjljwpQ52ILJA6ftENIwch5vw - "Join the conversation and connect with the C4AI Africa community."
Github: https://github.com/for-ai - "Access our curated collection of resources for AI in Africa."
Cohere Platform: https://cohere.com/research - "Explore the Cohere platform and tools."
Past Regional Africa Leads
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