LAGOS — French telecoms company Orange plans to partner with Meta and OpenAI to develop new artificial intelligence models trained on African languages.

The nonprofit AI research organization Ai2 has released a new family of models, OLMo 2, that are completely reproducible.

Orange will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI Large Language Models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday.

OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc. will begin training artificial intelligence programs on African languages, addressing a shortage of models for the continent’s thousands of dialects.

Orange is working with OpenAI and Meta to build custom AI models that can understand West African languages not understood by most conversational systems.

OpenAI and Meta are teaming up to train AI systems on African languages. This project, which includes French telecom giant Orange SA, aims to fix a major gap in AI. Africa, a continent with over 2,000 languages,

OpenAI have partnered with France-based telecom company Orange (OTC:ORANY) to train artificial intelligence models in African languages. The partnership shows how the reach of AI continues to grow as the plan targets two West African regional languages,