Verified AI Resources in South Africa
3 verified ai resources for building in South Africa. Every one has had its documentation, licensing and live status checked, not just listed. Last verified 24 Jun 2026.
Cassava Technologies AI Factory
Pan-African NVIDIA Cloud Partner deploying GPU-as-a-service and AI-as-a-service from data centers across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco, having procured 12,000 NVIDIA GPUs with the first cluster operational in Cape Town. It offers localized model support via its CAIMEx multi-model exchange.
InkubaLM
InkubaLM-0.4B is a 400M-parameter open-weights small language model built from scratch by Lelapa AI for five low-resource African languages (isiZulu, Yoruba, Swahili, isiXhosa, Hausa, plus English/French), using a LLaMA-style architecture trained on 2.4B tokens.
Vulavula
Vulavula is Lelapa AI's API platform for speech-to-text transcription and machine translation across South African and African languages (isiZulu, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, English, Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, French), purpose-built for telco and financial-services contact centres.