African AI Research

Axiveri

An African AI research initiative building open-source language and speech models for the continent and the world. Founded by Emmanuel Ariyo (Ememzyvisuals).

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The Mission

Africa has over 2,000 languages and 1.4 billion people. Most frontier AI is built on Western data, in Western languages, for Western contexts.

Axiveri builds AI that understands African languages, African accents, and African problems — from language models to speech recognition.

Every model is open-source. Research, fine-tuning, and commercial use are welcome.

Open Source First

Every model is freely available on HuggingFace under open licenses.

Africa-Centric

Trained on African language data, accents, and cultural contexts.

Research-Grade

Rigorously benchmarked. We built TruthGuard to evaluate AI — we apply the same standards to our own models.

Community-Driven

Partners, contributors, and supporters are welcome. Axiveri is built in public.

Model Series

Live — v1Language Model Series

Africlaude

Open-source language models built for African contexts. Africlaude-7B is live. v2 with Yoruba, Igbo & Hausa support is in development.

7B ParametersOpen SourceYoruba · Igbo · Hausa (v2)
Live — V1Speech Recognition Series

NaijaVox

Nigerian speech recognition models. NaijaVox-V1 supports Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, and Nigerian Accented English.

ASRYorubaHausaIgboPidginNigerian English
LiveText-to-Speech & Voice Cloning Series

WazobiaVoice

Multilingual TTS and zero-shot voice cloning across Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, and Nigerian English — one ~2B-parameter model, one set of weights. Built by extending Chatterbox's multilingual architecture to support orthographies (including Yoruba's tonal diacritics) it was never originally designed for.

~2B ParametersVoice Cloning5 LanguagesOpen Source
LiveImage Generation Model

AfriVision-Base

A FLUX-based LoRA fine-tune trained on African imagery — nearly 15,000 captioned images — for image generation that reflects African people, places, and contexts.

FLUX LoRAImage GenerationAfrican Imagery

Support Axiveri

African AI research needs support. Every contribution goes directly toward model training, compute, and open-source development.

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Partner

Integrate Africlaude or NaijaVox into your product, dataset, or research.

  • · Fine-tuning partnerships
  • · Dataset contributions
  • · API access & integration
  • · Co-authoring research
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Fund / Invest

Serious investment or grant inquiries for Axiveri's research and model development.

  • · Compute grants
  • · Research grants
  • · Strategic investment
  • · Institutional partnerships
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