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AfriTeVa V2 vs Cheetah
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
NLP Model
NLP Model
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Institutional only
Pricing
Free / open weights
Free for research use
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, t5, text-to-text, wura-corpus
517-languages, ubc-nlp, nlg, text-generation, afronlg
Summary
An improved T5 v1.1 model (428M params) pretrained on the Wura corpus covering 16 African languages, with gains on classification, translation, summarization and cross-lingual QA. Published at EMNLP 2023 by the Castorini group with African lead authors.
A massively multilingual natural language generation model supporting 517 African languages, outperforming baselines on five of seven AfroNLG tasks like summarization and translation. Developed by the UBC Deep Learning and NLP Lab and published at ACL 2024.