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Nigeria's Minister of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, recently unveiled N-ATLAS, an open-source language model designed to recognize and transcribe spoken words and generate text in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Nigerian-accented English. This initiative, developed in collaboration with Lagos-based startup Awarri, positions Nigeria as a key participant in the global pursuit of “AI sovereignty” and reinforces the ministry's commitment to
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