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InkubaLM vs UlizaLlama (Jacaranda Health)
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
LLM
LLM
Country
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇰🇪 Kenya
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Approval required
Pricing
Free / open weights (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Free for research/social good; commercial use requires contacting Jacaranda Health
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, llm, african-languages, open-weights, low-resource
llm, swahili, healthcare, maternal-health, llama2
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.
UlizaLlama is a 7B-parameter Swahili-and-English LLM fine-tuned from Meta's Llama 2 (continually pretrained on ~321M Swahili tokens) by Jacaranda Health in Kenya, built to power Swahili maternal-health SMS support for low-income expectant mothers in East Africa.