Hardy Pemhiwa

It's not about substitution.

It's about multiplication.

We want to amplify human capacity and we want to eliminate impossibility by bringing AI to those that the world had previously excluded.

So what is our AI factory going to do?

Already we're powering more than 12,000 AI developers, more than 1,100 startups across Southern Africa, East Africa, West Africa, and North Africa.

285 universities are going to be using our AI factory.

And because we've already been working with enterprises for the past 30 years, 67,000 of Africa's largest enterprises, from banks to telcos to state-owned enterprises, are all embracing this vision of an AI-powered future for the continent.

On a continent where the median age is only 19,

This is not just an improvement of digital infrastructure.

This is a revolution that we are bringing to Africa.

Because the next 1 billion users of AI are not going to use AI the same way that the first 1 billion have been using it.

They're coming from places where a single AI-amplified human must do the work of 10.

They are building AI to not only diagnose diseases that some of us have never heard of, but to teach math and physics and chemistry in Swahili, in Debele, in Zulu, in Shona, you name it.

They are building AI in order to detect counterfeit medicines.

Africa has a big problem with counterfeit medicines.

They're building AI to diagnose groups.

They're building AI to amplify human possibility.

Because in Africa, constraints have always driven innovation.

That's why pay as you go came from Africa.

That's why mobile money came from Africa.