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InkubaLM vs N-ATLaS
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
LLM
LLM
Country
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open weights (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Open (research)
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, llm, african-languages, open-weights, low-resource
multilingual, llm, government-backed
Summary
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.
Nigeria's first government-backed multilingual LLM (Sep 2025): a Llama-3 8B fine-tuned on 400M+ tokens across 4 Nigerian languages. Produced by NCAIR/NITDA and Awarri.