Introducing

ATLAS
African Tongues & Languages at Scale

A pan-African commitment to ensure no voice is left behind in the age of AI.

Open data · open models · open ecosystem. Free for anyone to build on.

Africa is not one voice, but thousands.
ATLAS gives every nation and its builders access to the building blocks of AI.

No single model for a whole continent, but a shared open framework each country shapes for itself.

Why ATLAS

Africa speaks over 2,000 languages. Most AI understands fewer than 100.

Open datasets and open models for African languages, built with local communities and free for developers to build on.

Open data

Language data collected with communities and contributors across the continent and released openly for everyone, not locked away.

Open models

Multilingual, multimodal models free to download, fine-tune, and deploy. Hosted on Hugging Face for the world to use.

Open ecosystem

Developers, startups, researchers and governments build on top, turning shared infrastructure into real tools for real people.

The atlas

A living atlas of African language AI

Tap a country to explore its open datasets and model.

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What's possible

Language is access

When AI understands local languages, developers build things that matter. A first look from Nigeria, where builders used N-ATLaS to create:

Civic & Legal

Civic Access

Team SabiLaw built a tool that simplifies Nigerian laws into clear, local languages, helping citizens understand their rights. Powered by N-ATLaS, it gives legally accurate explanations grounded strictly in real Nigerian law.

Agriculture

Farm Eyes

Team Afolabi Ajao's crop-health platform helps smallholder farmers detect disease early through voice-first, multilingual guidance. Computer vision plus N-ATLaS turns complex diagnoses into clear advice in local languages.

Housing & Tenancy

Lauya mi

Team T-R-U-S-T built a tenant-focused tool that demystifies Nigerian tenancy agreements, flags unfair clauses, and explains tenant rights in local languages, using N-ATLaS for real-time, law-grounded insights.

See what's built
How it works

Each country, in its own identity

Contribute language data

Local partners and communities gather speech and text in their languages, openly licensed from the start.

Release an open model

That data trains a multilingual, multimodal model, published openly on Hugging Face for anyone to use.

Developers build on top

The open ecosystem turns the model into civic, health, farming and education tools for millions.

Bring ATLAS to your country
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