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Africa Needs to Pay Attention to Small AI Models.
The continent is unlikely to win a contest to build the biggest model. It could do rather well at building the most useful ones.
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Software Is Getting Cooked
What AI Agents Mean for the Software Industry and Africa
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Beyond Tokens, AI and Corporate Africa
Business Models in the Age of Abundance
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Kimi and the End of AI Scarcity: Why the World’s Most Valuable AI Companies May Soon Be Valued Differently
The release of Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI represents more than another addition to the rapidly growing family of large language models. It signals a structural shift in the economics of AI.
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After Social Media: How AI Will Change the Way We Raise Children
Europe’s retreat from the digital playground
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When AI Makes the Movie, Who Owns the Story?
A Technological Milestone—or a Legal Turning Point?
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AI Is Building Itself
The recursive revolution that could redefine technological progress
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Kimi K3 and Africa’s Open Question
A Chinese model has beaten some of the world’s most advanced proprietary systems at coding. The result may matter more for Africa’s strategic choices than for the AI leaderboard
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The University After Artificial Intelligence
Higher education’s next role may be less about teaching knowledge and more about cultivating judgment