Orange will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI Large Language Models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday.

LAGOS — French telecoms company Orange plans to partner with Meta and OpenAI to develop new artificial intelligence models trained on African languages.

OpenAI and Meta are teaming up to train AI systems on African languages. This project, which includes French telecom giant Orange SA, aims to fix a major gap in AI. Africa, a continent with over 2,000 languages,

The partnership wants to include West African languages into large language models (LLMs) for artificial intelligence

Orange announced on Tuesday it is partnering with OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to incorporate regional languages in Africa that are currently not understood by any GenAI model.

Orange partners with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta to create AI models tailored for African languages. The project aims to address the challenges of less represented languages and promote sovereign AI for localized data processing and advanced AI models.

OpenAI have partnered with France-based telecom company Orange (OTC:ORANY) to train artificial intelligence models in African languages. The partnership shows how the reach of AI continues to grow as the plan targets two West African regional languages,

OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc. will begin training artificial intelligence programs on African languages, addressing a shortage of models for the continent’s thousands of dialects.

Orange has struck a multi-year partnership with OpenAI in Europe that will give the French telecoms operator access to pre-release AI models, group chief artificial intelligence officer Steve Jarrett said on Wednesday.

The nonprofit AI research organization Ai2 has released a new family of models, OLMo 2, that are completely reproducible.