Open Source · African AI

Africa's First
Continental
AI Model

15 languages. 86,604 training pairs. Built from scratch in Africa.

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Open source · Apache 2.0 · Built by SabiFlow Technologies

Languages Supported

🇳🇬Hausa
🇳🇬Igbo
🇳🇬Yoruba
🇳🇬Nigerian Pidgin
🇰🇪Swahili
🇪🇹Amharic
🇸🇴Somali
🇿🇦Xhosa
🇿🇦Zulu
🇿🇼Shona
🇺🇬Luganda
🇨🇩Lingala
🇸🇳Wolof
🇪🇹Oromo
🇳🇬Hausa
🇳🇬Igbo
🇳🇬Yoruba
🇳🇬Nigerian Pidgin
🇰🇪Swahili
🇪🇹Amharic
🇸🇴Somali
🇿🇦Xhosa
🇿🇦Zulu
🇿🇼Shona
🇺🇬Luganda
🇨🇩Lingala
🇸🇳Wolof
🇪🇹Oromo
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African Languages
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Training Pairs
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Parameters
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The Vision

The Baobab tree lives for 2,000 years.
Feeds entire ecosystems.
That is the vision.

1.4 billion Africans speak thousands of languages. Yet every major AI model — GPT, Gemini, Claude — was built for English first.

BaobabAI changes that.

Named after the Tree of Life across Africa, BaobabAI is the first open-source AI model trained specifically on African languages — built by an African developer, trained on African data, owned by Africa.

Supported Languages

15 Languages. More Coming.

🇳🇬
Hausa
Nigeria/Niger/Chad
70M+ speakers
🇳🇬
Igbo
Nigeria
30M+ speakers
🇳🇬
Yoruba
Nigeria/Benin
45M+ speakers
🇳🇬
Nigerian Pidgin
West Africa
75M+ speakers
🇰🇪
Swahili
Kenya/Tanzania
200M+ speakers
🇪🇹
Amharic
Ethiopia
35M+ speakers
🇸🇴
Somali
Somalia/Kenya
20M+ speakers
🇿🇦
Xhosa
South Africa
27M+ speakers
🇿🇦
Zulu
South Africa
27M+ speakers
🇿🇼
Shona
Zimbabwe
15M+ speakers
🇺🇬
Luganda
Uganda
8M+ speakers
🇨🇩
Lingala
DRC/Congo
70M+ speakers
🇸🇳
Wolof
Senegal/Gambia
12M+ speakers
🇪🇹
Oromo
Ethiopia/Kenya
40M+ speakers
More coming...
Across Africa

Quick Start

Start Building in 3 Lines

quickstart.py
1from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
2
3tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("okaforpascal40/BaobabAI-v0.2")
4model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("okaforpascal40/BaobabAI-v0.2")
5
6# Ask BaobabAI something in Pidgin
7response = model.generate("Wetin dey happen for Nigeria today?")
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What's Next

The Roadmap

v0.111 languages, 27K pairs
DONE
v0.215 languages, 86K pairs
DONE
🔜
v0.320 languages, 200K pairs
NEXT
🔜
v0.58B model, 25 languages
SOON
🔜
v1.0Live API, enterprise ready
SOON
🔜
v2.050+ languages, continental dominance
SOON

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