Teaching · Research · Innovation
AI for Africa,
built in the open.
TRI AI is a non-governmental organisation democratising artificial intelligence by building African communities for learning, research, and the development of AI solutions for local and global impact.
How the work fits together
The organisation is organised in three divisions.
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Teaching building the people. Structured cohorts and a community that learns together.
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Research building the knowledge. Open datasets, models, and benchmarks the field is missing for African contexts.
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Innovation shipping the work. Turning what's been learned and researched into products that work in the world.
TRI AI Teaching
Building the next generation of
African AI practitioners.
Cohort 10 of TRI AI Saturdays is open in partnership with Google DeepMind. Watch parties run during conference seasons. The colloquium series brings working researchers into community conversations.
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TRI AI Research
African questions,
global answers.
The Sauti Project is benchmarking speech recognition for African languages. ChowNet is mapping Nigerian foods at dataset scale. And more research ... work in the open.
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TRI AI Innovation
Turning research
into things that ship.
The first products are in development - applied tools and spinouts emerging from our research and teaching work. First launches are expected in late 2026.
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Latest
What's happening now.
Recent
Publications & updates.
Sauti Project releases benchmark for African speech recognition
News
The Human Labour of Data Work: Capturing Cultural Diversity through World Wide Dishes
Publication
The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation
Publication
ChowNet: An Image Dataset of Nigerian Food
Publication
1000 African Voices: Advancing inclusive multi-speaker multi-accent speech synthesis
Publication
Performant ASR Models for Medical Entities in Accented Speech
Publication
Newsletter
The Encoder.
Monthly programmes, research, and opportunities updates from The Encoder — a TRI AI Initiative