Cassava Technologies has announced the deployment of its AI factory, which is powered by NVIDIA AI platform in South Africa. The company has laos announced plans to scale the same to Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco.
Speaking on this, Ahmed El Beheiry, Group COO and Group Chief Technology & AI Officer at Cassava Technologies. Said, “For Cassava, building Africa’s AI ecosystem is an act of empowerment, not just a technological milestone. As the continent’s first NVIDIA Cloud Partner, we are ensuring that African businesses aren’t just consumers of global tech—they are the architects of it.”
“Our goal is to give Africa the infrastructure to write its own future, using its own languages – starting with Swahili, then expanding to languages such as Zulu and Afrikaans to better serve local users and markets – and data to build a digital legacy on its own terms,” he added.
Last year, the company launched Cassava AI Multi-Model Exchange (CAIMEx) which is a platform designed to make the world’s leading AI tools and large language models (LLMs) easily accessible to African developers. Developers across Africa can use CAIMEx to build, fine-tune, and deploy AI applications using Cassava’s integrated tool, powered with NVIDIA Blueprints, Models, and NIM microservices.
The company recently launched Cassava Autonomous Network, a blueprint that runs on the CAIMEx platform and is designed to significantly improve network performance across Africa, and is available for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to leverage.
Cassava is removing traditional barriers to entry and providing access to local compute by offering GPUaaS, AIaaS/APIs, . Cassava says this will ensure Africa has its own production of intelligence – sovereign AI factories keep intelligence securely within borders, tune models to local languages and cultures, and cultivate local jobs, startups, and economic growth.
This offering is enabling African enterprises and governments to innovate independently.
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