AI research foundation driving local innovation in Africa with open-source AI
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19 Feb 2025
Exciting News: OpenRay.ai is Live 🚀
We are thrilled to announce OpenRay.ai. A public-benefit initiative dedicated to democratising AI innovation for African businesses leveraging Open Source AI.
At OpenRay.ai, we believe AI should be accessible, transparent, and ethically used, tailored to local needs.
By leveraging Open Source AI, we empower businesses to innovate smarter, faster, securely, and cost-effectively.
Learn more at openray.ai
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OpenRay retweeted
May 19
Ekō is live today 🚀
EkĹŤ is context-aware security proxy for AI applications in African regulated domains.
Built Africa-first: African financial and identity data covered out of the box, extensible to your own company formats.
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May 19
Ekō is live today 🚀
EkĹŤ is context-aware security proxy for AI applications in African regulated domains.
Built Africa-first: African financial and identity data covered out of the box, extensible to your own company formats.
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May 19
Redact, or tokenise within a session.
The same BVN maps to the same token, so the model still gets coherent context and your workflow still works.
Credentials are always redacted, never tokenised. A deliberate safety floor.
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May 19
If you ship AI features in banking, health, identity, or any regulated workflow, it's worth five minutes.
Playground: eko-playground.openray.worke…
Write-up: openray.ai/updates/eko-relea…
GitHub: github.com/Openray-ai/eko
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OpenRay retweeted
May 6
In unstructured text, two Nigerian identity numbers can look identical to a generic PII detector.
Same length. Same shape. Different privacy implications.
Privacy Filter Nigeria: context-aware PII detection, tuned for Nigeria.
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In unstructured text, two Nigerian identity numbers can look identical to a generic PII detector.
Same length. Same shape. Different privacy implications.
Privacy Filter Nigeria: context-aware PII detection, tuned for Nigeria.
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May 6
Privacy Filter Nigeria is a LoRA adapter on @OpenAI's open-weight Privacy Filter.
Adds five Nigerian identity labels — NIN, BVN, passport, driver's license, voter's card — and retunes the base taxonomy for address formats.
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It's recall-oriented and will over-redact some benign numbers. We're upfront about that.
We welcome feedback: hard negatives, OCR noise, label disagreements, formats we're missing.
See more: openray.ai/projects/naija-pr…
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24 Feb 2025
🚀 Just Published🚀
📢 "The Business Case for Open-Source AI in 2025 for Nigeria" is here!
How can open-source AI unlock innovation, cut costs, and reshape businesses in Nigeria? Find out in our latest publication.
📖 Read → dub.sh/m3OPiMZ
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OpenRay retweeted
24 Feb 2025
🚀 Day 1 of #OpenSourceWeek: FlashMLA
Honored to share FlashMLA - our efficient MLA decoding kernel for Hopper GPUs, optimized for variable-length sequences and now in production.
âś… BF16 support
âś… Paged KV cache (block size 64)
⚡ 3000 GB/s memory-bound & 580 TFLOPS compute-bound on H800
🔗 Explore on GitHub: github.com/deepseek-ai/Flash…
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OpenRay retweeted
19 Feb 2025
Exciting News: OpenRay.ai is Live 🚀
We are thrilled to announce OpenRay.ai. A public-benefit initiative dedicated to democratising AI innovation for African businesses leveraging Open Source AI.
At OpenRay.ai, we believe AI should be accessible, transparent, and ethically used, tailored to local needs.
By leveraging Open Source AI, we empower businesses to innovate smarter, faster, securely, and cost-effectively.
Learn more at openray.ai
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