okaforpascal40/BaobabAI-v0.1

🌳 BaobabAI v0.1

Africa's first continental AI model, fine-tuned on 11 African languages.

Languages

🇳🇬 Hausa | Igbo | Yoruba | Nigerian Pidgin 🇰🇪 Swahili | 🇪🇹 Amharic | 🇸🇴 Somali 🇿🇦 Xhosa | 🇿🇼 Shona | 🇺🇬 Luganda | 🇨🇩 Lingala

What It Can Do

• Summarize African news articles in local languages
• Classify African content by category
• Understand Nigerian Pidgin English natively

Training Details

Parameter	Value
Base Model	Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Training Pairs	27,178
Training Steps	100
Final Loss	2.81
Method	QLoRA (r=16) via Unsloth

Note

This is v0.1 — the proof of concept. For the improved version with 15 languages and 86,604 training pairs, see BaobabAI-v0.2

Built By

Pascal Okafor Ogbonna | SabiFlow Technologies Limited 🌍 baobabai.dev · GitHub

Vision

1.4 billion Africans are underrepresented in every major AI model. BaobabAI is changing that — one language at a time.

License

Apache 2.0 — free to use, modify and build on.

The tree is planted. The continent will feel its shade. 🌳