Cassava unveils AI change – Gadget

Digital infrastructure supplier Cassava Technologies has launched a “one stop shop” that allows cell community operators (MNOs) to accomplice with the platform and bundle massive language fashions (LLMs) into their knowledge packages.

Revealed at AfricaCom final week, Cassava AI Multi Model Exchange (CAIMEx) brings AI fashions collectively below a regionally managed system to offer operators streamlined entry to a wide range of AI instruments.

“Telecom operators have always been challenged with the use of their pipe without really creating value,” stated Cassava AI CEO Ahmed El Beheiry throughout a panel dialogue at AfricaCom.

He stated this connectivity layer has traditionally generated restricted worth past fundamental web and voice providers.

“Now with the tremendous increase in AI models, our users are accessing the models without really creating value for all of us. So, we went across the globe to create this multi-model exchange.”

He stated the platform will allow MNOs to bundle LLMs with their knowledge packages, giving them a manner so as to add worth past connectivity. CAIMEx helps completely different fashions, together with Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini.

The firm says these fashions make CAIMEx a flexible and future-ready AI hub. CAIMEx goals to delivers pace, scalability, and safety to assist organisations profit from AI. It can be utilized to help buyer engagement, operational effectivity, and the event of recent digital providers.

CAIMEx goals to maintain knowledge inside Africa to fulfill knowledge sovereignty, privateness, and compliance necessities. The service is hosted in Cassava’s regional AI amenities. The platform is meant to increase entry to AI instruments to cell subscribers and SMEs throughout the continent, along with bigger enterprises.

“Plus, this will allow for local billing, which is ease of access to the mobile operator, said Beheiry. “Plus, CAIMEx products will be connected to the AI factory.”

“Since day one, we deliberate to have 5 centres of AI compute throughout Africa. The one in Cape Town is to serve the southern a part of Africa. We are planning a second one to comply with quickly in Egypt. This shall be adopted by Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria.

“These will be the five centres of interconnected AI data centres of compute power to serve all African regions. This will definitely be the bedrock of the digital infrastructure that will allow African startups, African innovators and Africans to really infuse AI in all industries. This is definitely the gate to Africa’s AI future.”

“With its growing AI ecosystem Africa has the potential to be more than a consumer of AI technologies imported to the continent. Through CAIMEx, Cassava is creating a bridge between global innovation and African ambition, giving every MNO the ability to offer subscribers world-class AI tools and LLMs easily and affordably.”

*Jason Bannier is a knowledge analyst at World Wide Worx and deputy editor of Gadget.co.za. Follow him on Bluesky at @jas2bann.