Orange expands OpenAI tie-up to add weight to Africa focused models

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Source: OpenAI

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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