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How a Community Effort is Teaching AI to See Africa’s Richness
AfriAya, a vision-language dataset built by Ugandan engineers, launches to improve AI recognition of African cultures across 13 languages as part of Cohere Labs' inclusion efforts.
AfriAya, a vision-language dataset, addresses Africa’s underrepresentation in AI. Created by Ugandan engineers, it builds on Aya improving AI’s recognition of African cultures, covering 13 languages, with plans to expand.
Part of Cohere Labs’ inclusion efforts, it aims for cultural robustness in AI.
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