Updates

Language research has made huge strides in recent years, but most of this work has been done on majorly high-resource languages. As new technologies emerge and the digital divide between high-resource and low-resourced languages deepens, it impacts the extent to which users can access information and communicate with these technologies.  On 17th October, we will […]

Cape Town, 01 Oct 2020 – In 2018, Arnu Pretorius broke ground as the first African researcher to get a paper accepted at NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems Conference), one of the most prestigious AI Conferences in the world. With “Critical initialisation for deep signal propagation in noisy rectifier neural networks” (arXiv:1811.00293v2), Arnu, still a […]

InstaDeep’s CEO and Co-Founder Karim Beguir talked to AI TV’s Dr Nick Bradshaw during AI Expo Africa. Together they discussed the state of African AI innovation in deep tech and also the exciting things in the pipeline for InstaDeep. Hear for yourself in the video above! (The interview is also available on YouTube)

With the huge success of NVIDIA’s first virtual GTC conference in March earlier this year, following the outbreak of Covid19 which made the traditional in-person format impossible, the company recently announced a second virtual conference will take place from 5-9th October.  As a Service Delivery Partner to NVIDIA, InstaDeep is thrilled to announce we are […]

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 […]