Paolo Ardoino 🤖(@paoloardoino):AI inclusion is the next frontier for Tether expansion. - billions of people can't afford to pay for AI - they can't be left out of the biggest tech revolution of our times Tether AI developed an high-quality AI translation model that supports 18 African languages and can operate 100% locally on devices (smartphones and laptops), without the need of connectivity. TranslatePsy-AfriSLM outperforms far larger AI models, despite containing just 800 million parameters, the smallest TranslatePsy-AfriSLM model outperformed Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, TranslateGemma-27B, and NLLB-3.3B across the FLORES-200, BOUQuET, and SMOL translation benchmarks. It supports Hausa, Amharic, Yoruba, Lingala, Swahili, Igbo, Zulu, Somali, Oromo, Malagasy, Kinyarwanda, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Wolof, Luganda, Nyanja, Shona, Tswana, and Southern Sotho. Unstoppable Together.

2026.09.02 13:38

AI inclusion is the next frontier for Tether expansion. - billions of people can't afford to pay for AI - they can't be left out of the biggest tech revolution of our times Tether AI developed an high-quality AI translation model that supports 18 African languages and can operate 100% locally on devices (smartphones and laptops), without the need of connectivity. TranslatePsy-AfriSLM outperforms far larger AI models, despite containing just 800 million parameters, the smallest TranslatePsy-AfriSLM model outperformed Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, TranslateGemma-27B, and NLLB-3.3B across the FLORES-200, BOUQuET, and SMOL translation benchmarks. It supports Hausa, Amharic, Yoruba, Lingala, Swahili, Igbo, Zulu, Somali, Oromo, Malagasy, Kinyarwanda, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Wolof, Luganda, Nyanja, Shona, Tswana, and Southern Sotho. Unstoppable Together.