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Democratizing AI through open-source contributions. Explore our tools, libraries, and datasets freely available to the global community.
Our Philosophy
We believe in the Ubuntu philosophy: “I am because we are.” Open source is fundamental to democratizing AI for Africa and beyond.
Community First
We prioritize community needs and collaborative development, ensuring our tools serve the global AI ecosystem.
Global Impact
Our open-source projects enable researchers and developers worldwide to build inclusive AI solutions.
Transparent Development
All development happens in the open, with clear documentation, ethical guidelines, and community governance.
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Featured Projects
cowcow CLI
Offline-first data capture and processing tool for AI applications in low-connectivity environments.
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Ubuntu-Lang
Preprocessing and tokenization library for African languages, supporting 20+ languages.
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AfricaNLP Dataset
Comprehensive multilingual dataset for African language processing tasks.
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Offline-AI
Framework for deploying AI models in offline and low-connectivity environments.
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Ubuntu-Vision
Computer vision library optimized for African agricultural and environmental contexts.
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DeepUbuntu-Core
Core utilities and shared components for Deep Ubuntu Research projects.
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Community Contributions
Hugging Face Transformers
Added support for African language tokenization and improved multilingual handling.
PyTorch
Fixed memory issues with large multilingual models on resource-constrained devices.
spaCy
Contributed African language models and improved tokenization for low-resource languages.
OpenAI Triton
Optimized GPU kernels for efficient inference on edge devices.
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