---
language:
- ha
- ig
- pcm
- yo
- sw
- am
- so
- xh
- sn
- lg
- ln
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- africa
- llama
- fine-tuned
- multilingual
---

# 🌳 BaobabAI v0.1

Africa's first continental AI model, fine-tuned on 11 African languages.

## Languages
🇳🇬 Hausa | Igbo | Yoruba | Nigerian Pidgin
🇰🇪 Swahili | 🇪🇹 Amharic | 🇸🇴 Somali
🇿🇦 Xhosa | 🇿🇼 Shona | 🇺🇬 Luganda | 🇨🇩 Lingala

## What It Can Do
- Summarize African news articles in local languages
- Classify African content by category
- Understand Nigerian Pidgin English natively

## Training Details
| Parameter | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| Base Model | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct |
| Training Pairs | 27,178 |
| Training Steps | 100 |
| Final Loss | 2.81 |
| Method | QLoRA (r=16) via Unsloth |

## Note
This is v0.1 — the proof of concept.
For the improved version with 15 languages and 86,604 training pairs,
see [BaobabAI-v0.2](https://huggingface.co/okaforpascal40/BaobabAI-v0.2)

## Built By
Pascal Okafor Ogbonna | SabiFlow Technologies Limited
🌍 [baobabai.dev](https://baobabai.dev) · 
[GitHub](https://github.com/okaforpascal400/BaobabAI)

## Vision
1.4 billion Africans are underrepresented in every major
AI model. BaobabAI is changing that — one language at a time.

## License
Apache 2.0 — free to use, modify and build on.

*The tree is planted. The continent will feel its shade.* 🌳