Orange (ORAN.PA) will enlist OpenAI and Meta (META.O) to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, according to an official announcement.
The project is planned to start in the first half of 2025 and will initially focus on incorporating regional languages spoken in West Africa into OpenAI’s “Whisper” and Meta’s “Llama” software, Orange said.
Most AI models are trained using English,