Confirmed for #DSA2025: Tejumade Afonja Doctoral researcher @CISPA_Helmholtz + co-founder of AI Saturdays (Lagos) She’s leading the charge in ethical AI & privacy-preserving data science—AND is a 2025 General Chair at Deep Learning Indaba 2025! Learn More: bit.ly/DSA2025Ibadan

This Friday is for BIG BANJU

Why I Started NEXTGEN CREATIVE SUMMIT It all began with a realization—I saw how much value I could offer to creatives like myself on campus. As someone who’s walking the path, I know how often creativity is overlooked in our tertiary institutions. 🧵

Meet Flora Oladipupo, a passionate advocate for AI within the Deep Learning Indaba community! Based in Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬 , Flora plays a vital role in shaping the future of AI talent as a dedicated member of the Applications and Selection Committee. Flora's journey into the

It was a pleasure teaching the ML Math Refresher at Cohere Labs Summer School! We had over 600 people come out and attend the first session. Thank you to Ahmad Mustafa Anis and everyone who helped organize the events! youtube.com/watch?v=0vglBR…

Hi everyone, Eniola and I are raising ~₦3,000,000 to sponsor flights for ~3 incredible Nigerians accepted to #DeepLearningIndaba 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference covers everything except airfare for many, and some of these folks can’t afford the ticket. Attending

🚀Join our ML Flipped Cohort starting on July 26th🚀 ☘️watch our curated ML videos at your own pace ☘️then dive into weekly live sessions with instructors to discuss, ask questions ☘️and collaborate with fellow learners! Register now! 🔗docs.google.com/forms/d/1fNYKg…

The opportunity gap in AI is more striking than ever. We talk way too much about those receiving $100M or whatever for their jobs, but not enough those asking for <$1k to present their work. For 3rd year in a row, ML Collective is raising funds to support Deep Learning Indaba attendees.

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"Preserving Culture with Python: AI plays Ayo, a Traditional Nigerian Game" By Kayode Makinde, Adebayo Abayomi-Alli Sponsored by ML Collective Presented at #EuroPython2025, Prague, Czech.

🚀 Hackade x DLI 2025 Flight Sponsorship Hackathon is LIVE! 🏆 Win return flights (up to $2,000) to #DeepLearningIndaba2025! Join now: zindi.africa/competitions/t… Thanks to Hawk Gaming Group & LyngualLabs for sponsoring our winners! #GenAI #Africa"

🎉 Our paper was accepted to the AfricaNLP Workshop at ACL 2025! 🇦🇹 In ths work, we investigate how LLMs struggle as typographical noise increases in Yorùbá question answering tasks, unlike their robustness on noisy English text. 📄: bit.ly/3IMuvsx #ACL2025 #AfricaNLP

Had a swell time presenting our work "Multilingual Arbitrage" with Ayomide Odumakinde at #ACL2025 in Vienna! 🇦🇹 "We move away from a 'single teacher' paradigm and instead harnesses diverse model strengths to enhance multilingual capabilities." ✨ Paper➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2408.14960

It’s Black Hat O’clock and this year, I’m flying in with one thing on my mind: cyber resilience! #ad    We’re talking ransomware gangs using AI, quadruple extortion, weaponized compliance; it’s wild out here. But I’m not showing up alone.    I’m bringing my incredible mentee,

I am so honoured to be part of the winners of the SPE Africa Region DSEATS datathon 2025. All the late nights and early mornings definitely paid off🚀. Thank you, team Petromind😊. Thank you SPE Africa Region DSEATS board☺️. #SPENAICE #naice2025

Had an amazing time talking about our work💥💥 Deep Learning Indaba #DLI2025

A view of some of our researchers from Nigeria at the poster session at #DLI2025 Great works 💪

I lost my right arm in 2007. I thought I had lost my future too. But what looked like the end became the beginning of a bigger mission. Thank you Punch Newspapers for featuring me in this interview: Read punchng.com/losing-my-arm-…

Update!: I'm back in school folks. If you're looking for me, I’ve been shipped to Carnegie Mellon University Africa for an MSc in AI. ETA: ~2 years Contents: caffeine, code, engineering, chaotic debugging Goal: Engineer intelligence, not lose mine This journey here has been a wild one, but I want

New record: Largest serving of Nigerian style jollof rice - 8,780 kg (19,356 lb 9 oz) achieved by Hilda Baci and Gino in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬