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Safaricom has unveiled M-Pesa 3.0, incorporating conversational AI agents in Swahili and English, algorithmic micro-credit underwriting, and zero-fee merchant transfers.
A new report from Partech Africa reveals Cape Town has overtaken Lagos and Nairobi in AI startup funding, with deep-tech ventures leading the surge across robotics and computer vision.
The BioNTech-Kigali modular plant is now synthesizing customized treatments for malaria and tuberculosis using machine learning models developed with African genetic datasets.
A continental consortium of AI researchers has released AfriLingo-70B, an open-weights LLM engineered for Swahili, Yoruba, Amharic, Hausa, Zulu, and Igbo with zero hallucination benchmarks.