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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AUDA-NEPAD, others to keynote Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2026 as continental leaders gather for Africa’s Great Digital Buildout

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Lagos, Nigeria – The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) will take a leading role at Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2026, with Amine Idriss Adoum, Director, Infrastructure, Energy, Industrialisation, Trade & Regional…

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