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Masakhane is a grassroots organisation whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans. Despite the fact that 2000 of the world’s languages are African, African languages are barely represented in technology. The tragic past of
Masakhane is a grassroots organisation whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans. Despite the fact that 2000 of the world’s languages are African, African languages are barely represented in technology. The tragic past of
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| Oct 16, 2025 | African Languages for AI - the Project That's Gathering a Huge New Dataset | Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing from the inter... |
| Jul 27, 2025 | Africa: Google's Africa Ai Boost | Google is pumping $37 million into AI development in Africa, targeting key areas like food security and digital access in local languages. A major chunk, $25 million, is going to the AI collaborative for food security, which will help Afric... |
| Sep 22, 2022 | ZINDI to discuss how data science can solve Africa's problems at UNGA77 | Proudly Pan-African, the start-up Zindi , is the biggest network for professional data scientists in Africa and will be holding a session at the 8th edition of the UN Science Summit under the theme of Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times, duri... |
| Oct 11, 2021 | Microsoft taps AI techniques to bring Translator to 100 languages | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Today, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Translator, its AI-powered text translation service, now supports more than 100 different lan... |
| Oct 11, 2021 | Microsoft taps AI techniques to bring Translator to 100 languages | Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Today, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Translator, its AI-powered text translation service, now supports more than 100 dif... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Study finds that few major AI research papers consider negative impacts | Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. In recent decades, AI has become a pervasive technology, affecting companies across industries and throughout the world. These innovations arise from... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Study finds that few major AI research papers consider negative impacts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! In recent decades, AI has become a pervasive tech... |
| May 5, 2021 | Speech recognition system trains on radio archive to learn Niger Congo languages | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. For many of the 700 million illiterate people around the world, speech recognition technology could provide a bridge to valuable inform... |
| May 5, 2021 | Speech recognition system trains on radio archive to learn Niger Congo languages | Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. For many of the 700 million illiterate people around the world, speech recognition technology could provide a bridge to valuable information. Yet in many countries,... |
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What has the press written about Masakhane?
Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning Masakhane, among them “African Languages for AI - the Project That's Gathering a Huge New Dataset” (Oct 16, 2025) and “Africa: Google's Africa Ai Boost” (Jul 27, 2025).
Is Masakhane still active?
Yes, Masakhane is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 7, 2026.