AfroLM vs Sunflower-14B

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.

Sunflower-14B is a Qwen3-14B based multilingual LLM by Sunbird AI supporting translation and text generation across 31 Ugandan languages plus English. It achieves the highest translation accuracy in 24 of 31 evaluated language pairs and targets healthcare, agriculture, education and government use cases. It is released under Apache 2.0 with quantized GGUF and W8A8 variants available.