Download Ollama: ollama.com/download And run ollama run crane-ai-labs/swahili-gemma-1b That's literally all it takes to try out Swahili Gemma on your laptop today. 🚀

Excited to share a game-changing feature for our Swahili Gemma 1B model over at Crane AI Labs (Crane AI Labs ) that you might have missed: You can run it entirely offline, directly on your Android device! 🤯 We were thrilled by the community's reception and wanted to showcase how

Lots of great sessions coming up next week.

Currently, 34% of Scholars Program applications are from research talent in Africa. 🎉 We look forward to connecting with many of you through the recruitment process! 🌍 Join us to tackle fundamental ML challenges at scale, working alongside world-class researchers & engineers.

Join the Scholars Program and become part of a small, collaborative team tackling some of the field's toughest challenges. 🏔️ With dedicated research mentors and the entire lab supporting your growth, you'll have the resources to succeed.

Ganda Gemma LiteRT model files are finally here 🎉 Run Crane AI Labs Ganda Gemma 1B on-device and completely offline, as with our Swahili Gemma models. 📌 Link to model file: huggingface.co/CraneAILabs/ga… 📌 Tutorial on how to set it up on your device: x.com/Bronsn4/status…

Our Regional Africa Group is looking forward to hosting paul for a session on "When Typos Break AI: Testing the Limits of LLM Robustness in Low-Resource Languages" on Tuesday, September 16th. Thanks to our program leads Kato Steven Mubiru and Bronson for organizing this

Be sure to check out our NLP Reading Group's session next week on Saturday, September 20th as they welcome Donato Crisostomi for a session on "Model Merging — A Tale of Two Settings" Thanks to Siddhant Gupta and va4az for organizing this session🔥 Learn more:

The Afri-Aya dataset is now live. 🎉 14 cultures, 14 languages, and we're only getting started. 📌 Afri-Aya dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/Coher… This is the largest human-reviewed dataset for African vision-language models (VLMs) to date, representing the greatest number of

3 days. Worldwide. Inspiring & starting new research collaborations. Introducing the Connect conference. 🖇️ Join for incredible speakers, including Ivan Zhang Joelle Pineau Marzieh Fadaee & Shayne Longpre + >20 researchers discussing how collaboration and open science are driving progress. 🚀

Excited to be one of the speakers at this year's Connect virtual conference by Cohere Labs. We look forward to seeing a lot of you there.

Wei-Yin Ko Shivalika Singh Beyza Ermiş Nathanael Carraz Hamdy🧬 Yong @ Neurips Karthik Nahid Alam Surya Guthikonda Cohere Labs Connect Conference Lightning Talk ⚡️ Building the Largest Open, Human-Reviewed African VLM Dataset with Kato Steven Mubiru & Bronson See how teamwork and community review enabled this dataset — advancing representation in multilingual AI. 📜 huggingface.co/datasets/Coher…

We are kicking off Connect Day 2 with a fireside chat with Cohere Co-Founder Ivan Zhang @ NeurIPS , and Head of Cohere Labs, Marzieh Fadaee. 🔥 Today is all about collaboration as an ambitious way of working. Join us. cohere.link/hY98jza

We're live in a few: events.zoom.us/ev/Ak2ejE1_fKz… Join us for our lightning talk.