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Edtech Startup, Bildup AI, Raises $400,000 to Expand Hybrid AI-Powered Learning Across Nigeria
Bildup AI, a Nigerian AI-powered learning platform championing a hybrid model of human and artificial intelligence, has raised $400,000 in an oversubscribed angel funding...
AI in Africa 2025: Top Local AI Startups, Major Breakthroughs & Big Industry Shifts
Artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa reached a pivotal moment in 2025. From Nairobi to Lagos, Cape Town to Accra, startups, governments, corporates, and universities...
How Nigeria’s Kabirat Olajire is using AI advocacy to help organisations deliver and scale
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how businesses, governments, and institutions operate, yet many organisations continue to struggle with turning AI ambition into measurable impact. For...
Tejumade Afonja Ranked Amongst Top 40 AI Achievers by The Society For AI Advancement
Nigerian AI specialist, researcher, engineer, educator, and community organizer, Tejumade Afonja, has been ranked amongst the top AI achievers advancing the future of artificial...
The African Creative in a Generative AI World
Generative AI is reshaping the world’s creative industries, but its memory is incomplete. Most frontier models learn from digital archives that over-index Western voices...
Google Plans to Train 3 Million African Students in AI, Offers Free Gemini Pro Access
Global tech giant, Google, has taken a major step towards its ambitious goal of equipping 3 million Africans with digital and artificial intelligence (AI)...
Nigeria Must Act Fast to Close AI Knowledge Gap, Experts Warn
Technology and education experts have stressed the urgent need for Nigeria to bridge its artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge gap, strengthen collaboration across key sectors,...
Experts Call for Localisation and Policy Alignment to Drive Nigeria’s AI Adoption
Experts have called for the localisation of artificial intelligence (AI) models, stronger regulatory frameworks, and closer collaboration between academia, industry, and government to accelerate...
At ToriAI Launch, Summit University VC, Prof. Abiodun Musa Aibinu Urges Reform to Drive Nigeria’s AI Revolution
At the launch of ToriAI, a Nigerian newsroom automation platform, Professor Abiodun Musa Aibinu, Vice-Chancellor of Summit University, Offa, delivered a call for a...
AI as Assistant, Not Master: Redefining the Creative Workflow
There is a quiet revolution unfolding across creative industries. From writers and designers to musicians and filmmakers, we are all standing at the edge...
How Cortex Hub Is Using Hackathons to Mobilize 40 African Cities to Build the Continent’s First AI Agents
Cortex Hub, the South African innovation accelerator turning 15 next year, is embarking on a new initiative: a continent-wide hackathon to build Africa’s first...
Can AI-Generated Work Be Called Art?
If a machine paints a face that moves you, is that art or mere illusion? If you cannot trace the hand that bore it,...
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