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SERENGETI vs UlizaLlama (Jacaranda Health)
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
LLM
LLM
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇰🇪 Kenya
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Institutional only
Approval required
Pricing
Free for research; commercial use requires contacting authors
Free for research/social good; commercial use requires contacting Jacaranda Health
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, masked-language-model, 517-languages, afrocentric, ubc-nlp
llm, swahili, healthcare, maternal-health, llama2
Summary
A massively multilingual masked language model covering 517 African languages and varieties across five scripts, achieving state-of-the-art results on the AfroNLU benchmark. Developed by the UBC Deep Learning and NLP Lab as an Afrocentric resource.
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.