AI Startups: In contrast, Lelapa AI - which Moiloa calls a "socially grounded product and research lab" - has developed a language processing tool for under-represented African languages to help companies translate, transcribe and analyse text and audio for local consumers.
Lelapa AI is one of a clutch of African startups that aims to offer an alternative to AI systems being built by Western firms such as OpenAI and Google as "digital colonialism" concerns grow about how Big Tech harvests and uses people s data.
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