AI News – Africa

The two discussed establishing Nairobi as the home of the first OpenAI Academy initiative in Eastern Africa, expanding AI education, and strengthening digital skills.

Applications are now open for the Laptop LLM Challenge 2026, an initiative by the Africa Deep Tech Challenge that invites innovators, researchers, developers, and AI builders to create large language model (LLM) solutions that run efficiently on consumer-grade laptops. The challenge seeks practical approaches to…

Eight major government agencies hold some of Nigeria’s most valuable datasets on citizens. But these databases remain siloed, with little interoperability or data sharing.

Nigeria’s digital payments ecosystem has grown faster than almost anyone anticipated. The country processed nearly 11 billion instant payment transactions… The post Nigerian Banks Are Deploying AI Against Fraud. Here’s How Far They’ve Come appeared first on TechTrends Africa.

On Saturday, June 6, 2026, the auditorium of RCCG The Faith City in Ogba, Lagos became a space of learning,… The post MyCard Tech Solutions Drives Social Impact by Equipping Lagos Youths with Practical AI Skills appeared first on TechTrends Africa.

The discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) has focused for three years on who has the biggest model, who controls the most computer power, and who launched products first. Robert Benvenuti, Absa’s Chief Information Officer for Data & Applied AI, believes that this focus will matter less in Africa. Instead, a…

There is a quiet irony sitting at the centre of Africa’s artificial intelligence ambitions. The continent is producing more machine… The post Africa’s AI Talent Drain: The Continent Is Producing Engineers It Cannot Afford to Keep appeared first on TechTrends Africa.

Six of Africa’s biggest mobile operators, including Airtel, MTN, and Orange, are working with GSMA to build AI language models for the continent’s 2,000-plus languages.

The first wave of AI tools taught machines to respond. The current wave is teaching them to act. Across the… The post Agentic AI in Africa: What It Means When AI Takes Action on Your Behalf appeared first on TechTrends Africa.

Bluechip Technologies announced the acquisition of YarnGPT, an AI text-to-speech model, at the Bluechip Data and AI Summit on Wednesday, as Africa’s tech leaders gathered to define the continent’s role in the AI future.