Nigeria is set to launch its first Multilingual Large Language Model (LLM).
The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, revealed this via his social media handle.
ANNOUNCEMENT 3 – Nigerian Multilingual Large Language Model
The launch of Nigeria’s first Multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) through a partnership between @awarritech, @DataDotOrg, @NITDANigeria and @NCAIRNigeria.
The LLM will be trained on 5 low resource languages and… pic.twitter.com/97THQGnPmc
— Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani (@bosuntijani) April 19, 2024
After an exciting week of co-creation with over 120 ArtificiaI Intelligence experts, we not only have an initial draft of our National AI Strategy, we also announced some significant developments and partnerships that will lead us towards accelerating the development of AI in… pic.twitter.com/4idieq3JaT
— Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani (@bosuntijani) April 19, 2024
According to him, the launch will be carried out in collaboration with other major tech firms.
For the purpose of developing artificial intelligence solutions, the LLM will be trained in five low-resource languages as well as accented English to guarantee better language representation in current datasets.
The project will also be supported by over 7,000 fellows from the 3MTTNigeria programme.
