For most of the past five years, the AI industry has run on one assumption: if you want a better model, build a bigger one. More parameters, more GPUs, more data scraped from every corner of the internet.
A new open-source release built for African languages quietly breaks that rule.
On 2 September 2026, Tether AI Research released TranslatePsy-AfriSLM, a family of translation models covering 19 Sub-Saharan African languages. The smallest version has just 800 million parameters, small enough to run offline on a phone or laptop.
According to the accompanying research paper, which has been accepted at the EMNLP 2026 conference,...
Social commerce has become one of the biggest growth stories in Nigerian retail. Sellers running boutiques through Instagram, WhatsApp Business, and Jumia storefronts have proven that a phone and a strong customer base can outperform a physical shop. But there's one part of the playbook that's still stuck behind everyone else: video. Buyers increasingly expect to see a product in motion — how the fabric moves, how a gadget actually works, how a skincare product applies — and most sellers simply don't have the time, equipment, or editing skills to produce that consistently.
That gap between what customers expect and...
We live in the world of cutting-edge technologies that have been changing almost every aspect of our private and professional lives. You can see it everywhere, from healthcare and transportation to digital communications and industry.
As always, international corporations were thrilled to embrace new technologies in the last few years. According to IT specialists at aussiewritings.com service, companies such as Google or Amazon immediately noticed the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence and used it to lift their businesses to the whole new level.
Other companies started following the same path very soon, so if you run your own business...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a major driver of digital transformation as businesses try to keep in step with the rapid technological advancements in 2018.
Due to constant media coverage, AI is one of the most known aspects of this transformation.
It is slated to make humans obsolete as it is increasingly becoming a necessity for businesses, whether they're investing in AI-embedded software, or using MLaaS (Machine Learning as a Service) to automate internal processes.
AI is quickly modernizing businesses, and in 2018, businesses that have not yet adopted it will begin to feel the need to and pressure, whether that is...
With more than 6000 brick-and-mortar stores closed in 2017 in the US alone, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, specialists predicted a "retail apocalypse". However, according to Statista, e-commerce represents nearly 19% of the total retail globally and is expected to grow close to 25% by 2026, so there's still a lot of room for growth.
In 2017, 58.9% of the retail e-commerce sales worldwide came from mobile devices, with 11% of online shoppers using their smartphones weekly for purchases. So not only are we buying more and more online, but we are buying on the go.
PwC also conducted a...
AI is everywhere in smartphones right now. Every brand is talking about smarter assistants, better recommendations, and more AI-powered features. TECNO has its own...
Nigeria has quietly become one of the most AI-engaged e-commerce markets in the world. According to DHL eCommerce's E-Commerce Trends Report 2026, Nigerian shoppers...
Nigerian workers have taught themselves to use artificial intelligence faster than Nigerian businesses have figured out how to deploy it. That is the standout...
Every AI governance conversation I join opens with frameworks. Every AI governance incident I've reviewed opened with something far more specific.
Someone built something. Nobody...
