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AfroLM vs InkubaLM
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
LLM
LLM
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇿🇦 South Africa
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open weights
Free / open weights (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, masked-language-model, active-learning, data-efficient
nlp, llm, african-languages, open-weights, low-resource
Summary
A multilingual masked language model pretrained from scratch on 23 African languages using a self-active learning framework, outperforming AfriBERTa, mBERT and XLMR-base on NER and sentiment tasks. Created by Bonaventure Dossou and collaborators, published at SustaiNLP/EMNLP 2022.
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.