Hey everyone, let's give a big cheer for our three new team members who just joined our team.🥳🎊

Welcome aboard Mbali Ndandani, Aremu and Sett we’re happy to have you on the team and can't wait to see all the awesome stuff we'll accomplish together.🚀

Get ready for the launch of our Vulavula API.🎊 It's multilingual, user-friendly, and proudly African.

For now, make sure to apply for our exclusive hackathon to be among the first to explore its features and win prizes!

Apply now: bit.ly/VHack

#VulavulaHack

Get ready for the launch of our Vulavula API.🎊 It's multilingual, user-friendly, and proudly African.

For now, make sure to apply for our exclusive hackathon to be among the first to explore its features and win prizes!

Apply now: bit.ly/VHack

#VulavulaHack

📣Announcement: First Keynote Speaker
We’re thrilled to introduce keynote speaker for IndabaX SA🇿🇦2024: Pelonomi Moiloa, CEO Lelapa AI, a research lab building language technology for African languages.
🏆Named as one of the most influential people in AI
#Times100
#indabaX2024

My #TEDxPretoria talk is finally out. From my early AI journey up to stressing AI’s role in inclusivity & supporting African initiatives.
Watch it now on Youtube 📺 -> AI as Our Mirror: Exploring Ourselves Through AI Empowerment youtube.com/watch?v=TPr6_8…
Data Science for Social Impact Lelapa AI

Come meet Pelonomi Moiloa at #EmpoderaLIVE 2024!

👩‍🔬 She's a renowned South African data scientist

🤖 CEO and founder of Lelapa AI

🏆 Recognized by TIME magazine as one of the most influential people in #AI

📌 Book your free seat: ciber.be/empoderalive-b…

My #TEDXPretoria talk is out.

This was a great experience, reflecting on my personal journey on #ArtificialIntelligence and representing our great communities at:
Deep Learning Indaba,
Masakhane,
Data Science for Social Impact,
Lelapa AI
and more.
University of Pretoria

We're excited to launch our newsletter!🎊Your monthly dose of our latest product news and our moves.

The first edition of our newsletter covers our product Vulavula, its features, the latest product improvements and more.

Read and Subscribe here: bit.ly/LelNews

Our CEO and CTO are speaking at the Siyakhula Festival held in Muizenberg this week. It's an honour to be part of Siyakhula, themed 'Growing Mathematics in Africa' & aimed at empowering the next generation of mathematical scientists.🙂

Programme:bit.ly/ProgS
#AIMS20th

🚀 Exciting update! Delighted to reveal that Prof Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 is a keynote speaker at #DSA2024Nyeri ! He's an esteemed Associate Professor in Computer Science, currently the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria. 👉bit.ly/4cbhqmq 🙌 #DataScienceAfrica

We're excited to share that our Product Research Lead Jenalea will be a panellist in this special webinar on Human Rights Day.

Make sure that you don't miss it, get your ticket here: bit.ly/LelxTaqa

😊We’re excited to announce that Jenalea Rajab from Lelapa AI will be joining our esteemed panel of speakers for the upcoming webinar! Lelapa AI

Don’t miss out on this insightful discussion. Sign up now via the link:
qkt.io/OBw1W9

Happening Today (6 March) at 11 AM: I will be giving a submission on AI and Large Language Models as part of the Competition Commission “Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry (MDPMI)'

Media And Digital Platform Marketing Inquiry (MDPMI) 06/03/2024 youtube.com/watch?v=2PuaRf…

We are delighted to welcome our newest teammate Thandeka Makofane.🎊

Congratulations Thandeka on your new beginning and we wish you a prosperous career with us.🙂

#newbeginnings2024

Our CEO is featured in the Rest of World where she discussed the importance of developing originally African AI language models.

Read the full 3-minute piece here: bit.ly/LelapaxROW and share your thoughts in the comments section.🙂

We're hiring for new positions, details and to apply check below.⬇️

- Lead Data Officer: bit.ly/DatOfficer
- Intermediate FullStack Engineer: bit.ly/FSEngin
- MLops Engineer: bit.ly/MLopsEngin
- Research Scientist: bit.ly/RScient

Good luck!🙂

Recently had a chat w/ Kabod Group about the importance of building language technology for African languages & shared what we’re building with my friends at Lelapa AI (and our recently launched Vulavula API)

Article: lnkd.in/eEnEH7Tb

Podcast: lnkd.in/eWfWqFz

The first version of the Ghana Natural Language Processing (NLP) Algorine Research Text To Speech in Twi is out now on our web app 🤩 Link inside video (see top). Mad props to Lawrence Adu-Gyamfi and Joel Budu for pushing it over the finish line 🏁 👊🏾 Let us know your experience with it 🙏🏾 😊 Tell a friend 🚀

not surprising, tbh. we found numerous disturbing and illegal content in the LAION dataset that didn't make it into our papers

this is a win for individuals, especially children in the dataset subject to sexual abuse but an overall lose for dataset curation/audits/accountability