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The paper, titled “Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages” boasts 50 authors from across African soil and beyond, including InstaDeep’s Kelechi Ogueji and Orevaoghene Ahia, both based out of our Lagos office. It is accepted to “Findings”, a new initiative being trialled as a sister publication to the EMNLP… Read more »
This year’s AI Expo Africa, the largest business-focused AI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Data Science trade event in Africa focused on Deep Tech Innovation in Africa. As the co-founder of one of Africa’s leading AI startups, Karim Beguir was a natural choice for the innovation keynote talk. He debated how the continent can compete… Read more »
Saturday, August 22nd, the Deep Learning Indaba, whose mission is to strengthen Machine Learning and AI in Africa, hosted a social event with the aim of getting the community back together for an afternoon. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the event took place online, a factor which didn’t stop more than 100 people from tuning… Read more »
The virtual sessions ran for two weeks from early August with the aim of sharing our extensive knowledge and experience in AI and provide an understanding of the Machine Learning fundamentals for the students to work on Deep Learning projects in the future. The sessions ranged from an introductory session on AI and an overview… Read more »
Kickstart, one of Europe’s largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms, today announced that InstaDeep is amongst nine companies selected to their Smart City & Technology vertical to assist in driving innovations in Switzerland. The Zurich based company runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate groundbreaking deep tech solutions through… Read more »
While routing a single train from point A to point B is easy, the problem intensifies when you are faced with trains breaking down randomly or how to avoid trains blocking each other at intersections. The NeurIPS 2020 Flatland challenge aims to solve this hard problem using an approach that was developed and evaluated in… Read more »
On the topic of how to build an AI startup in Africa, Karim and Aniedi explore what it takes to become an African AI pioneer using InstaDeep’s successful journey and humble beginnings as a pure bootstrap as an example. Karim explains the genesis of InstaDeep and some of the reasons why we are the leader… Read more »
Over the last few months, several volunteers at InstaDeep, including the two Co-Founders Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim, have been working closely with the Deep Learning Indaba Steering Committee to develop the incredibly ambitious Indaba Grand Challenge! The initiative kicked-off on the 30th June and aims for nothing less than finding a cure for Leishmaniasis,… Read more »
IEEE Melecon 2020 took place from 16-18 June and amongst the participants were InstaDeep’s very own Zohra Slim who was invited to take part in a panel featuring ‘Successful Startups’. The international forum focuses on presenting design methodologies, techniques, and experimental results in emerging electro-technologies that aim to provide resources and services to foster entrepreneurial… Read more »