The Federal Government and its partners have unveiled ATLAS Umoja, a pan-African artificial intelligence platform designed to support the development of large language models that understand African languages, cultures and knowledge systems.
The initiative, announced on Thursday in Abuja, is an expansion of Nigeria’s N-ATLAS project, a government-backed open-source large language model developed by artificial intelligence and robotics company, Awarri.
The platform was unveiled at the opening of the seventh Ordinary Session of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries of the African Telecommunications Union at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre.
The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, said the initiative was created to address the limited representation of African languages in modern artificial intelligence systems.
According to him, fewer than two per cent of African languages are meaningfully supported by current AI models, despite the continent accounting for nearly one-third of the world’s languages.
“Artificial intelligence represents
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