POPA ReconTether Launches Offline AI for Africa
Tether Launches Offline AI for Africa Tether has launched TranslatePsy-AfriSLM, a family of free, open-source AI models that translate 19 African languages fully offline, directly on a user's device. The AfriSLM models use about 800 million parameters, yet each language pair weighs only 21 to 35 MB, small enough to run on a basic phone with no internet connection and no remote server. Tether says that cuts storage requirements by around 94% versus larger translation systems. They are also fast: roughly 46 milliseconds per sentence, which QVAC claims is up to 78 times quicker than larger mod…
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