African AI Talent Shrinks Continent’s First Multilingual Language Model by 75%

In a major leap for inclusive and accessible artificial intelligence, Africa’s first multilingual Small Language Model (SLM), InkubaLM, has been reduced in size by an impressive 75%, without compromising performance. This milestone was achieved through the Buzuzu-Mavi Challenge, a global AI competition hosted by Lelapa AI in partnership with Zindi.

The challenge invited machine learning experts to compress InkubaLM, which is designed…