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Deep LABS — advancing AI for Africa

The projects we're undertaking to advance AI across African academic, industry, and community spaces — from early research through to real-world implementation.

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Research

Academic· Literature Review

Swahili & Lingala NLP Benchmark

Building open evaluation datasets and fine-tuned models for underrepresented African languages, starting with Swahili and Lingala. The goal is a public benchmark the community can build on.

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Research

Community· Concept

Community AI Literacy Curriculum

A free, open curriculum introducing AI concepts to secondary students across the continent, co-designed with educators. In feasibility study.

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Development

Community· Prototype Build

AI-Assisted Crop Disease Diagnostics

A mobile-first tool that helps smallholder farmers identify crop diseases from a photo and get treatment guidance in local languages. Currently in prototype iteration.

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Testing

Industry· User Testing

Audit-Ready Agent Governance Layer

A governance layer that logs every agent action with an immutable trail and enforces human-approval boundaries before sensitive writes. In user testing with partner organisations.

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Implementing

Industry· Pilot

Pan-African Opportunity Bridge Engine

An engine that matches African research, talent, and capital to global partners. Piloting with three universities and two investment firms.

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Development

Industry· Design

Low-Bandwidth Edge Inference Runtime

A lightweight runtime for running AI models on low-power devices in areas with limited connectivity. Design phase complete, entering prototype build.

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