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South African artificial intelligence (AI) research and product lab Lelapa AI (opens in new tab)has introduced its large language model (LLM) that aims to pioneer five African languages, as a start.

AI-generated deepfakes are realistic, easy for nearly anyone to make, and increasingly being used for fraud, abuse, and manipulation – especially to target kids and seniors. While the tech sector and non-profit groups have taken…

Bhaskar Mitra recently received the ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Awards for the following two categories: Excellence in Research: “For high-impact work, including research in neural IR and the establishing the MS-MARCO ranking benchmark” and…

Redmond opens up to discuss its new tool, which can extract data from unstructured text using large language models. Microsoft’s GraphRAG is a new approach to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that Redmond has described a “significant…

“Stealing Part of a Production Language Model” written by A. Feder Cooper et al. receives ICML 2024 Best Paper Award.

In Microsoft’s pioneering AI For Good Lab, data scientists and researchers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to tackle disinformation, predict wildfires, track whales and even detect leprosy in vulnerable populations. But what are…

Tusher Chakraborty was recognized for the contributions to enabling data-driven farming, influencing FCC to adopt regulations on IoT in TV White Spaces, and pioneering research in satellite-based IoT communications. The Misties Awards are for top…

Amref Health Africa partners with Microsoft AI for Good and Kenya’s Ministry of Health to identify, address, and combat food malnutrition among children in Africa with the help of Microsoft AI technology.

The ‘AI for Africa’ report published by the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), an association of mobile network operators, shows that agriculture and food security takes up 49 percent of all AI deployments followed…