Nigeria Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Digital Economy launched the country’s first Multilingual Major Language Model (LLM).
Minister of Communications of Nigeria, Dr. Bosun Tijaniannounced on Friday, April 19 after the conclusion of a four-day artificial intelligence workshop held in Abuja.
Details
According to Tijani, the launch of the AI tool was facilitated by a partnership with the Nigerian AI company Awarritechglobal technology company DataDotOrgThe National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)and National Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR).
What they say
The minister stated “The LLM will be trained in five low-resource languages and accented English to ensure stronger linguistic representation in existing datasets for developing AI solutions. The project will also be supported by more than 7,000 fellows from the 3MTT Nigeria program»,
Digging deeper
Tijani added that after four days of collaboration with more than 120 AI experts, Nigeria created an initial draft of the National AI Strategy and revealed remarkable advances and collaborations aimed at driving the country’s AI development forward.
21st century technology will fund the purchase of GPUs to boost national computing capacity. These resources will assist local researchers, start-ups and government agencies in AI projects housed at the GBB Data Center in the FCT.
The big picture
Tijani disclosed that the country’s National IT Strategy has received $3.5 million in seed funding from interested partners. Foreign and local partners support funding, including UNDP, UNESCO, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Luminate, Lagos Business School, Data Science Nigeria, NITDAand other bodies of the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy.
Includes $1.5 million in direct funding and one an additional $2 million 21st Century Technologies invested in the pilot program.
Source: Cointelegraph
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