Tether addresses AI underinvestment in Africa with open-source machine translation models

Most translation models are primarily trained for high-resource Asian and European languages. Most African languages, spoken by hundreds of millions of people, are relatively neglected, compared to their high-resource counterparts. Although AI underinvestment across the African continent has created a significant barrier to adoption among citizens, AI could generate $1.2 trillion for Africa’s economy by 2030, equivalent to 6% of its GDP, according to a UNESCO report.