South African Startup Launches AI Model Supporting 12 African Languages

South African technology company Vambo AI has introduced MORENA, a new artificial intelligence language model designed to improve digital services and technological access for speakers of African languages. The open-weight model contains 1.5 billion parameters and was developed from scratch to support 12 African languages alongside English and French. The supported African languages include ChiShona, Kiswahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Kinyarwanda, Setswana, Afrikaans, isiNdebele