Lelapa AI Aims To Develop Technology For The Global Community
Lelapa AI Aims To Develop Technology For The Global Community. Lelapa.AI believes that bigger isn’t necessarily better. The company’s small models prove just how powerful resource efficient solutions can be. All that is needed is some hardcore tinkering with fundamental science.
The company is built for doing business in Africa. Specifically, reaching the 1.2 billion potential customers who don’t speak English or French as a first language. Lelapa.AI is a socially grounded Africa-centric Artificial Intelligence research andproduct lab powered by the wisdom of resource efficient technology.
Lelapa is a concentration of Africa’s niche skills in resource efficiency. This wisdom around resource efficiency is imperative for the advancement of AI technology globally – and especially for solving the complex problems posed by the Global South (the Majority World).
Grounded in the philosophy of Ubu-ntu (I am because we are) Lelapa’s mission is to develop technology for the global family. The company explores how contemporary challenges can be solved through centering technology on humanism based on relationality – advancing global Responsible AI practices on the continent and beyond.
African AI talent needs a home – an opportunity to contribute to solving problems that represent their best interests, in a place that facilitates them doing their best research, without compromising the kind of remuneration warranted by the application of such critical skills. Lelapa seeks to be that home.
