Orange expands OpenAI tie-up to add weight to Africa focused models
Orange claims to be the only telco to be given early access to OpenAI’s latest open‑weight reasoning models.
This article includes:
- Themes: AI transparency; B2B applications; Data sovereignty; Digital divide; Edge deployment; Enterprise services; Language inclusion; Mixture-of-experts; Open weight models; Regional language training.
- People: Hriday Ravindranath; Jérôme Hénique; Steve Jarrett; Usman Javaid; Yasser Shaker.
- Geographic: Africa; Egypt; Europe; France; London; Middle East.
- Organisations: AI Sweden; Blue Planet; Cisco; CSG; Gates Foundation; Meta; Nature; OpenAI; Open Source Initiative (OSI); Orange; Orange Business; Orange France; Orange MEA; Reuters; ServiceNow; Snowflake.
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