How companies — from multinationals to African SMEs — are adopting, deploying, avoiding or being disrupted by AI. Practical and strategic rather than theoretical.
Generative video platform Higgsfield has released its underlying technology stack on GitHub and made over 50 image and video models accessible through a unified API. Reaching a valuation of 5.4 billion dollars, the company is actively encouraging developers to build competing services.
OpenAI says its new Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia on efficiency. Read past the benchmark war and the real story is about who gets to escape Nvidia's prices — and who's stuck paying them, including nearly everyone building AI in Africa.
Uber was fined €825 million for deactivating drivers by algorithm with no human review. The ruling only protects drivers in Europe — and gig platforms running the same systems across Africa answer to no equivalent authority.
The demo works. The rollout does not. What sits between them is rarely the model, and companies keep being surprised by the same four things.
Per-token pricing looks trivial until it multiplies by traffic. The bill is controllable, and most of the control is in decisions made early.
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