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Tahawul Tech
5 days ago
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
Orange Group upgrades its partnership with OpenAI
Orange Business Group has strengthened its partnership with OpenAI by announcing it will now deploy the AI organisation's advanced open-weight reasoning models into its infrastructure. The French operator stated OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b models will be integrated into its infrastructure, 'making customers' data even safer' and cater to calls for advanced sovereign AI solutions. As an early access partner, Orange will become one of the first companies globally to deploy the new open models, implemented across a variety of environments. These range from Orange's large regional cloud data centres in France to small on-premises servers or edge sites. The operator explained that by maintaining control over the deployment environment, it can host AI workloads locally across any of its 26-country footprint, while safeguarding sensitive data and complying with diverse and evolving national regulations across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Orange added its deep AI engineering team will work to customise and distil OpenAI models for specific tasks, effectively creating smaller sub models for particular use cases while ensuring protection of all sensitive data used. The companies also pointed to a push around driving digital inclusion and innovation across Africa, using access to the advanced models to include several African languages and build on an initiative announced in November 2024. Chief AI officer at Orange, Steve Jarrett, said the new strategy 'drives new use cases to address sensitive enterprise needs, helps manage our networks and enables innovative customer care solutions including African regional languages and much more'. Source: Mobile World Live Image Credit: OpenAI
Time of India
7 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Orange to use OpenAI's latest models to work with African languages
By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM: French mobile operator Orange said on Tuesday it plans to use OpenAI 's latest AI models with African languages . The benefits of AI models have largely bypassed African languages, numbering over 2,000, due to challenges such as lack of data and limited computational resources, according to researchers at Cornell University in the United States and a report by journal Nature. Orange, which provides telecom services in 18 African countries, signed a deal with OpenAI last year to get access to its pre-release AI models and fine-tune large language models to translate regional African languages. It said it started working with African languages this year using OpenAI's Whisper speech model, but the new models can extend this work to far more complex uses. OpenAI's first open-weight models have trained parameters, or weights, which are publicly accessible and can be used by developers such as Orange to tweak the models for specific tasks without requiring original training data. Orange plans to fine-tune the models with its collected samples of African regional languages and deploy them locally. "We plan to provide the fine-tuned models for free to local governments and public authorities," Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett told Reuters. "We see this initiative as a blueprint for how AI can help bridge the digital divide : by collaborating with local startups and communities, Orange and OpenAI hope to catalyze an ecosystem where African languages are first-class citizens in the AI realm," Jarrett said.
CNA
05-08-2025
- Business
- CNA
Orange to use OpenAI's latest models to work with African languages
STOCKHOLM :French mobile operator Orange said on Tuesday it plans to use OpenAI's latest AI models with African languages. The benefits of AI models have largely bypassed African languages, numbering over 2,000, due to challenges such as lack of data and limited computational resources, according to researchers at Cornell University in the United States and a report by journal Nature. Orange, which provides telecom services in 18 African countries, signed a deal with OpenAI last year to get access to its pre-release AI models and fine-tune large language models to translate regional African languages. It said it started working with African languages this year using OpenAI's Whisper speech model, but the new models can extend this work to far more complex uses. OpenAI's first open-weight models have trained parameters, or weights, which are publicly accessible and can be used by developers such as Orange to tweak the models for specific tasks without requiring original training data. Orange plans to fine-tune the models with its collected samples of African regional languages and deploy them locally. "We plan to provide the fine-tuned models for free to local governments and public authorities," Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett told Reuters.
Reuters
05-08-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Orange to use OpenAI's latest models to work with African languages
STOCKHOLM, Aug 5 (Reuters) - French mobile operator Orange ( opens new tab said on Tuesday it plans to use OpenAI's latest AI models with African languages. The benefits of AI models have largely bypassed African languages, numbering over 2,000, due to challenges such as lack of data and limited computational resources, according to researchers, opens new tab at Cornell University in the United States and a report by journal Nature. Orange, which provides telecom services in 18 African countries, signed a deal with OpenAI last year to get access to its pre-release AI models and fine-tune large language models to translate regional African languages. It said it started working with African languages this year using OpenAI's Whisper speech model, but the new models can extend this work to far more complex uses. OpenAI's first open-weight models have trained parameters, or weights, which are publicly accessible and can be used by developers such as Orange to tweak the models for specific tasks without requiring original training data. Orange plans to fine-tune the models with its collected samples of African regional languages and deploy them locally. "We plan to provide the fine-tuned models for free to local governments and public authorities," Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett told Reuters. "We see this initiative as a blueprint for how AI can help bridge the digital divide: by collaborating with local startups and communities, Orange and OpenAI hope to catalyze an ecosystem where African languages are first-class citizens in the AI realm," Jarrett said.
