Linguistic sovereignty is a necessity for inclusion. Sunflower is outperforming global giants by prioritizing local context and nuances. Read the paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07203. Try Sunflower and let us know your thoughts in the comments! sunflower.sunbird.ai/ #SunflowerLLM #AfricanLanguageTechnology #AIForSocialGood #SunbirdAI #ForAfricasManyVoices

We’re building language technology for every voice in Uganda. In this short highlight from the Sunflower launch, Dr Ernest Mwebaze, Executive Director @SunbirdAI, explains why Sunflower is about more than technology, it’s about inclusion and giving Ugandans access across more of our languages. With Sunflower, we’re connecting people, institutions, and ideas using language tech built for Africa’s many voices. Explore Sunflower: sunflower.sunbird.ai #Sunflower #SunbirdAI #AIforSocialGood #AfricanLanguageTechnology #NLP #ForAfricasManyVoices

Word of the Week Kot (Acholi) = Rain ☔ With Sunbird AI’s translation & speech tools, communities can access health, education & climate info in their own languages — bridging gaps in vital services. Try them: 🌐 translate.sunbird.ai 🎙️ speech.sunbird.ai #AiForSocialGood #SunbirdAI #AfricanLanguageTechnology

Sunbird AI wins big in the Kinyarwanda Kaggle ASR competition by @DUmuganda We trained Whisper-large-v3 on up to 1400 hrs of curated audio, hitting sub-10% WER at just 200 hrs. Read the full scaling insights:blog.sunbird.ai/f42f7d88d42f #ASR #AIForSocialGood #SunbirdAI #AfricanLanguageTechnology

🚀 🚀 The second release day in a row, also for Africa! Thrilled to announce release of our Cheetah 1.2B text-to-text Transformer model. Enables state-of-the-art African language generation across 517 languages. 🎊 🎊 Original paper: aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lo… Paper describing this 1.2B model: aclanthology.org/2024.findin… GitHub: github.com/UBC-NLP/Cheetah HuggingFace 🤗: huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/cheet… With @IfeAdebara and @arelmadany #AfricanNLP #NLProc #LanguageGeneration #T5Model #lowResourceNLP #AfricanLanguageTechnology #MT #machine_translation #LLMs #modelRelease #newModel #AI @ubcscience @UBC_CS @UBC_Arts @UBCLinguistics @UBCLangScis @UBCiSchool @mbzuai

🚀 It’s a good day for Africa! Thrilled to announce release of our African machine translation models, benchmark, and new spBLEU1K evaluation metric. 🎊 10 BLEU points over @AIatMeta’s NLLB. 👇 Paper: aclanthology.org/2024.findin… GitHub: github.com/UBC-NLP/Toucan AfroLingu-MT Benchmark: huggingface.co/datasets/UBC-… Toucan-base: huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/touca… Toucan-1.2B: huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/touca… spBLEU1K Evaluation Metric: github.com/UBC-NLP/Toucan/tr… With @arelmadany and @IfeAdebara #AfricanNLP #NLProc #AfricanLanguageTechnology #MT #machine_translation #LLMs #modelRelease #newModel @UBC_CS @UBC_Arts @UBCiSchool @UBCLinguistics @UBCLangScis @mbzuai