Bronson retweeted
We're hiring a Developer Relations and Go-to-Market Lead for Africa, in Nairobi, Kigali or Kampala.
Bring developers and users to Trawl, Voice Studio and our models, benchmarks and their needs to us or partners.
Early career.
We especially want women to apply.
Closes 30 Nov.
craneailabs.com/careers/deveโฆ
Bronson retweeted
Two years leading @Cohere_Labs Regional Africa community and women stepping forward for its next chapter. ๐
The graphic carries my name. The story carries many more.
Henok started the programme. Purity helped it grow. @Bronsn4 and I have had the privilege of building on that foundation.
Together, the community built Afri-Aya, won Gold at Expedition Aya 2025, and is now developing V2 with contributors across 11+ African countries.
What we learned here, careful evaluation, respect for language and shared credit now shapes how we build at @Crails_Inc.
Thank you to @sarahookr , @aidangomez , @nickfrosst and @cohere co-founders, @mziizm , the Labs team, Bronson and every contributor who made these two years possible.
Our next co-leads are still being selected. Iโm especially excited by the women stepping forward to help carry the work further.
We inherited something worth caring for. Now we get to help others build its future.
Bronson retweeted
Introducing Trawl: find photos, screenshots, documents & voice notes by describing what you remember.A receipt from the phone shop.
A screenshot you saved. A file whose name tells you nothing.Trawl is a free, open-source Android app that searches the content of your files.
Download the app + models, index offline on your phone, search privately.
No account. No cloud.Powered by on-device models including EmbeddingGemma 2 (@GoogleDeepMind / @Google ), @nvidia Parakeet for speech, and @Microsoft TinyCLIP.Try typed search in Luganda, Swahili & Kinyarwanda too (English currently strongest โ improving the rest).
Got something youโve been hunting for? Try it and tell us what worked (or didnโt).
Download + code: trawl.craneailabs.com/#OnDevโฆ
@NVIDIAAI @NVIDIAAIDev @googlegemma @Google
#OpenSource #Android #SemanticSearch #Privacy
Bronson retweeted
Today we release our new website.
It tells our story, carries our new brand and states our mission: AI infrastructure that works where the cloud does not.
Crane Voice Studio launches next week, with more products to follow.
craneailabs.com
Bronson retweeted
Our Community-led Regional Africa group kicks off "Afri-Aya V2" this week! ๐
Afri-Aya V2 moves from roadmap to work. In this week's session, they open the V2 workstreams โ per-language data collection, evaluation and the research paper, quality control, and community operations. ๐
Join @katomubirusteve and @Bronsn4 for this exciting project and learn more about their journey so far: cohere-labs-community.githubโฆ
Bronson retweeted
๐๐ณ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฑ-๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ.
Privacy models for Luganda, Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda and Dholuo, with benchmarks and separate EaseHealth findings.
Supported by the @gatesfoundation. Separate work with Jacaranda Health extends the research.
craneailabs.com/articles/getโฆ
Bronson retweeted
๐ Lexsi - AI Safety and Alignment Hackathon โ $30,000+ in prizes and credits in collaboration with @Cohere_Labs and @huggingface
Build with Lexsi Labs' open-source post-training, safety and alignment stack, alongside Cohere Labs and Hugging Face.
๐ Nov 1 โ 21, 2026 ยท ๐ Online ยท ๐ฅ Teams of 1โ3
Register here: hackathon.lexsi.ai/
If you are in Bangalore, you can also register for the hackathon kickoff event which covers invited talks from the organizing teams, deepmind, IISc, redhat etc...
๐ Oct 31, 2026
Register here : luma.com/66jkhulx
ALT Hackathon poster for Lexsi Labs AI safety and alignment hackathon in collaboration with Huggingface and Cohere Labs
Bronson retweeted
How we African builders are using and giving back to @nvidia AI infrastructure.
@Crails_Inc + @SocialPAYUg : a controlled agentic financial workflow, now informing reusable African-language tools weโre developing with @nvidia guidance.
Thank you, @nvidia team.
If you want to read the blog, check this link below:
craneailabs.com/articles/speโฆ
@NVIDIAAI @NVIDIAAIDev @NVIDIAAIInfra
Bronson retweeted
Featured on @Zawya.
@AiEverythingADโs health release, carried by Zawya, highlights our work adapting @mbzuai (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)โs K2 Horizon, an open model developed in Abu Dhabi, for African languages and on-device use where connectivity may be limited.
Our clinical-support work is already deployed across 15+ public health facilities in East Africa, with 250+ consented health workers.
AI infrastructure that works where the cloud does not.
Link: zawya.com/en/press-release/eโฆ
Bronson retweeted
Our work in Luweero, told by @ymatias , Head of @GoogleResearch .
Yossi shared Maureenโs story: a midwife in Uganda, no internet, using EaseHealth built on MedGemma during a complicated delivery.
That work is now expanding in maternal and child health, with support from the Gates Foundation.
More to share soon.
youtu.be/ggPWZ34gGaY?si=hXNhโฆ
Bronson retweeted
๐ฏ.๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ. ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐. ๐ข๐ป๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐.
Today, 55 organisations โ convened by @gatesfoundation : announced a joint commitment: that people who speak languages underrepresented in today's AI can use these tools in their own language and voice. It builds on the Foundation's $1B commitment to equitable AI.
๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ.
We build sovereign AI infrastructure for real-world deployment , AI that works where the cloud does not. We adapt open models toward Luganda and Swahili, evaluate them for real conditions, and deploy them on the devices people already own, across Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
Four areas of work: the open language layer, tracking progress honestly, turning language data into working tools, reaching people safely. Crane adapts, evaluates, deploys and integrates in all four.
Alongside @MasakhaneNLP , @DUmuganda , @DeepIndaba and @AISingapore .
Language is infrastructure. Infrastructure gets built together.
gatesfoundation.org/ideas/prโฆ
Bronson retweeted
๐ Afri-Aya V2 is kicking off!
After V1 became the largest human-annotated image collection across 14 African languages and earned a Gold Award at Expedition Aya 2025, weโre building what comes next. ๐
Join @katomubirusteve and @Bronsn4 for the Afri-Aya V2 Kickoff to hear:
๐ง what we learned from V1
๐บ๏ธ whatโs on the V2 roadmap
๐ค how you can get involved โ from language-specific data collection, annotation, research and more!
Whether youโre a long-time community member or joined last week, all regions and experience levels are welcome. ๐
Join us on Tuesday, September 15th for the kickoff event to learn more: luma.com/phl0g8nc
Bronson retweeted
This week in Seoul ๐ฐ๐ท
Crane AI Labs joined the @WorldBankGroup , Korean Government, Government of El Salvador, @Microsoft & @Blackboard on stage at the EdTech Policy Academy on AI: bringing an African perspective on local languages, low-cost devices and AI beyond the cloud.
Bronson retweeted
Glad to be invited to speak during the 81st @UN General Assembly High-Level Week this September, with support from the @AIHub4SD AI Hub For Sustainable Development (UNDP).
For many African founders, rooms like this feel far away.
Weโll keep building and showing the world Africa has got talent.
Bronson retweeted
Crane AI Labs invited to the @WorldBankGroup 's Global EdTech Policy Academy on AI in Seoul ๐ฐ๐ท
We're honoured to share that Crane AI Labs has been invited by the World Bank Group to the Global EdTech Policy Academy on Artificial Intelligence in Seoul (August 31 โ September 4), organised in partnership with the Government of the Republic of Korea, the @FCDOGovUK , and the @MastercardFdn.
Our CTO @Bronsn4(Bakunga Bronson) joins the Day 1 panel on operationalizing AI in education.
From Kampala to Seoul: African-built AI belongs in these rooms.
#AIinEducation #AfricanAI
Bronson retweeted
Crane AI Labs has been selected as one of 26 winners of the LINGUA Africa Open Call : an initiative of the @Microsoft AI for Good Lab, the @gatesfoundation , the @MasakhaneNLP African Languages Hub, and @Googleorg.
Our project: Building a Medical Speech Layer, an open corpus and foundational models for African clinical AI.
Worth reading the full list ,the range of work here is the real story.
Congratulations to every selected team, and thank you to the four partners for backing community-led language work.
microsoft.com/en-us/researchโฆ
#LINGUAAfrica #AfricanAI #SovereignAI
Bronson retweeted
We made one year today.๐ฅณ
@Bronsn4 and I started Crane AI Labs without funding, borrowing what we needed, stretching what we had, and building before anyone could see the institution we imagined.
A year later, the work is real.
Still early. No longer imaginary. Year two begins.
We thank @aistudiouganda , @AIHub4SD ,@UNDP , @nvidia , @NVIDIAAI , @googlegemma , @GoogleDeepMind , @Googleorg , @cohere ,@Cohere_Labs , @adaption_ai and all partners for the support.
Bronson retweeted
Crane AI Labs is heading to @DeepIndaba 2026 in Lagos ๐ณ๐ฌ (Aug 2โ7) .
Selected among the top African AI startups for the Startup Panel, our exhibition booth, and showcasing our African-language datasets.
Honoured to also join sessions organised by @GatesAfrica (@gatesfoundation), @FCDOGovUK , and @IDRC_CRDI alongside DLI.
Represented by our Senior Data Lead, Lameck Kavuma.
#DLI2026 #AfricanAI
Bronson retweeted
New blog from our community! @katomubirusteve and @Bronsn4 (Regional Africa Co-Leads in the Cohere Labs Open Science Community), share the story of how a Luganda word-review task sparked a journey from Discord to contributing to Africa's AI future.
๐ Read the full post at labscommunity.cohere.com/bloโฆ
Bronson retweeted
๐๐'๐ซ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ง๐๐ฑ๐ญ ๐๐จ-๐๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐
@Bronsn4 (Bronson Bakunga) and I have led this community/program, and it has given us far more than we ever gave it. Mentorship, research collaborations, a Gold Award at Expedition Aya, the foundations of everything we've built at @Crails_Inc (Crane AI Labs). It all started right here.
Now it's time to pass that forward.
Over the next few months, our aim is to find and mentor the next generation of Co-Leads , builders who can take this community further than we did.
๐๐'๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐'๐ฏ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐:ย running research projects, hosting world-class speakers, building networks across the continent, and turning community work into real opportunity.
It starts next Tuesday, July 21 at our Monthly Meet Up โ open to everyone, from every corner of Africa. Come share what you're building, meet the community, and if you've been waiting for a sign to step up: this is it.
๐ ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ:ย cohere.com/research/open-sciโฆ
โค๏ธ @cohere @Cohere_Labs Madeline Smith Brittawnya Prince Alejandro Rodrรญguez Salamanca @mziizm Fadaee Julia Kreutzer
