Research updates, technical deep dives, and insights on building AI for African languages.
January 29, 2026
How we fine-tuned Google's TranslateGemma-12B for English-Kikuyu translation, achieving 19.61 BLEU through iterative experimentation and deployed it on Modal.
January 08, 2026
Our research team discusses the technical challenges of fine-tuning LLMs for low-resource Bantu languages and our roadmap for voice AI.
January 08, 2026
How we adapted a state-of-the-art LLM for African languages using QLoRA, synthetic data generation, and noise injection to handle typos and diacritics.
December 22, 2025
Our architecture for real-time voice chatbots using the Mimi neural codec and Llama-Omni, preserving tonal fidelity in Kikuyu.
December 10, 2025
How we're leveraging the African Next Voices initiative's audio corpus to train robust Speech-to-Speech models for Kikuyu.
November 28, 2025
Transforming 30K English-Kikuyu translation pairs into conversational AI through synthetic data generation and task restructuring.
November 15, 2025
Why agriculture and healthcare are the ideal verticals for launching AI-powered services in native African languages.
October 30, 2025
We're launching C-elo Labs to bridge the AI gap for low-resource African languages. Starting with Kikuyu, expanding to Kamba, Luo, and beyond.