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BaobabAI-v0.1
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BaobabAI-v0.1 is a machine learning model from okaforpascal40. Use it for the machine learning task on the model card, and read the license before you ship it in a product. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.
Africa's first continental AI model, fine-tuned on 11 African languages.
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Updated Mar 7, 2026
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- License
- apache-2.0
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Mar 6, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 7, 2026
- SHA
- a4d97e7d
Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
🌳 BaobabAI v0.1
Africa's first continental AI model, fine-tuned on 11 African languages.
Languages
🇳🇬 Hausa | Igbo | Yoruba | Nigerian Pidgin 🇰🇪 Swahili | 🇪🇹 Amharic | 🇸🇴 Somali 🇿🇦 Xhosa | 🇿🇼 Shona | 🇺🇬 Luganda | 🇨🇩 Lingala
What It Can Do
- Summarize African news articles in local languages
- Classify African content by category
- Understand Nigerian Pidgin English natively
Training Details
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base Model | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct |
| Training Pairs | 27,178 |
| Training Steps | 100 |
| Final Loss | 2.81 |
| Method | QLoRA (r=16) via Unsloth |
Note
This is v0.1 — the proof of concept. For the improved version with 15 languages and 86,604 training pairs, see BaobabAI-v0.2
Built By
Pascal Okafor Ogbonna | SabiFlow Technologies Limited 🌍 baobabai.dev · GitHub
Vision
1.4 billion Africans are underrepresented in every major AI model. BaobabAI is changing that — one language at a time.
License
Apache 2.0 — free to use, modify and build on.
The tree is planted. The continent will feel its shade. 🌳
- License
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- ha, ig, pcm, yo, sw, am
- Created
- Mar 6, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 7, 2026