Africlaude
An open-source language model series built for Africa — available for research, fine-tuning, and production use. Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa support coming in v2.
About Africlaude-7B
Africlaude-7B is a 7-billion parameter open-source language model — the first in Axiveri's Africlaude series. Built for researchers, developers, and builders who need a capable open model they can run, fine-tune, and deploy.
Africlaude-7B v2 is in development — the next version will understand Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and other Nigerian languages with a significantly improved dataset.
The Africlaude Series
The first model in the series. Available now on HuggingFace for download, fine-tuning, and research use.
An improved second version with support for Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and other Nigerian languages. Better dataset, stronger performance.
Axiveri is actively researching and building. More models are coming — stay tuned.
What You Can Build
Chatbots & Assistants
Deploy conversational AI for African business contexts.
Fine-tuning Projects
Adapt Africlaude-7B to your specific domain or language.
Research & Benchmarking
Use in academic research on African language NLP.
Content Generation
Text generation, summarization, and classification tasks.
Education Tools
Intelligent tutoring for African students in local languages.
Business Automation
AI-powered workflows for African markets.
Citation
africlaude2025,
author = { Ariyo, Emmanuel }
title = { Africlaude: Open-Source African Language Models }
year = { 2025 }
publisher = { Axiveri }
url = { https://huggingface.co/Axiveri/Africlaude-7B }
}
Get involved
Africlaude is open-source and community-driven. Download the model, contribute datasets, or reach out to collaborate on v2.