Africa’s immediate AI opportunity is inference, not frontier models

Africa should continue developing its own models and research capabilities. But its most immediate commercial opportunity lies in deploying artificial intelligence to solve local problems - not competing immediately in…

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No power, no compute: the infrastructure behind Africa’s AI ambitions

Africa’s artificial-intelligence plans will ultimately depend on a physical system of electricity, cooling, connectivity and resilient data centres. Without that foundation, announcements of new models and computing capacity will remain…

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The 2.2% problem: why Africa is underrepresented in global internet routing

Africa’s internet story is usually told through visible infrastructure: new subsea cables, more terrestrial fiber, expanding data centers, Internet Exchange Points, cloud points of presence and rising broadband adoption. By…

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