Meta, OpenAI, Orange Join Forces To Build AI Models For African Languages
Meta, OpenAI, Orange Join Forces To Build AI Models For African Languages
Orange's initiative will begin by including two West African languages, Wolof and Pulaar, spoken by approximately 16 million and 6 million people, respectively. These languages are commonly used in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania. The AI models will initially roll out in early 2025, with plans to cover all 18 West African nations in future expansions. Orange will also make these models available for non-commercial uses, including public health and education.French telecom company Orange announced its partnership with OpenAI, backed by Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), Facebook's parent company.
法國電信公司Orange宣佈與OpenAI合作，由微軟公司（納斯達克股票代碼：MSFT）和Facebook的母公司Meta Platforms Inc（納斯達克股票代碼：META）提供支持。
This collaboration aims to create custom artificial intelligence (AI) models tailored to understand African regional languages better, starting with West Africa. These AI systems will be built upon open-source models, Whisper and Llama, to address the challenges of less represented languages in mainstream AI solutions.
此次合作旨在創建量身定製的人工智能（AI）模型，以更好地理解非洲地區語言，首先是西非。這些人工智能系統將建立在開源模型Whisper和Llama之上，以應對主流人工智能解決方案中代表性較低的語言所帶來的挑戰。
The project highlights the difficulties major AI firms face when their systems rely predominantly on U.S.-based data, which limits their ability to interpret languages and contexts from regions like Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Orange plans to fine-tune these models by integrating language-specific data, improving their capacity to recognize and process regional dialects, CNBC reports.
該項目凸顯了大型人工智能公司在系統主要依賴美國數據時面臨的困難，這限制了他們解釋非洲、中東和歐洲等地區的語言和背景的能力。據CNBC報道，Orange計劃通過整合特定語言的數據來微調這些模型，提高其識別和處理區域方言的能力。
Orange's initiative will begin by including two West African languages, Wolof and Pulaar, spoken by approximately 16 million and 6 million people, respectively. These languages are commonly used in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania. The AI models will initially roll out in early 2025, with plans to cover all 18 West African nations in future expansions. Orange will also make these models available for non-commercial uses, including public health and education.
Orange的計劃首先將包括兩種西非語言，即沃洛夫語和普拉爾語，分別由大約1600萬和600萬人使用。這些語言通常在塞內加爾、岡比亞和毛里塔尼亞使用。人工智能模型最初將在2025年初推出，並計劃在未來的擴展中覆蓋所有18個西非國家。Orange還將把這些模型提供給非商業用途，包括公共衛生和教育。
The initiative aligns with the growing global emphasis on "sovereign AI," which focuses on creating regionally controlled AI systems to safeguard local languages, cultures, and data. Orange is also working on hosting OpenAI models in European data centers to ensure localized data processing and early access to advanced AI models. These efforts will help Orange develop innovative applications like AI-powered voice systems for customer service.
該計劃與全球對 「主權人工智能」 的日益重視相吻合，後者專注於創建區域控制的人工智能系統，以保護當地語言、文化和數據。Orange還致力於在歐洲數據中心託管OpenAI模型，以確保本地化數據處理和儘早獲得高級人工智能模型。這些努力將幫助Orange開發創新的應用程序，例如用於客戶服務的AI語音系統。
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang expressed solidarity with sovereign AI, which he deems critical for countries to leverage their strengths. He is backing it with a $110 million fund for startups.
英偉達首席執行官黃延森表示聲援主權人工智能，他認爲主權人工智能對於各國利用其優勢至關重要。他正在爲初創企業提供1.1億美元的資金來支持它。
International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM) chief Arvind Krishna and Nvidia CFO Colette Kressexpressed similar opinions.
國際商業機器公司（紐約證券交易所代碼：IBM）首席執行官阿文德·克里希納和英偉達首席財務官科萊特·克雷斯也表達了類似的觀點。
