The Lightweight Stack
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Research and tracking on small and mid-scale AI models: what they can do, where they run, and why they matter for language coverage and access in the Global Majority.
The Lightweight Stack looks at what happens outside the frontier. It tracks small and mid-scale models, their real capabilities and limits, the languages they cover, and the conditions under which they can be deployed in African and other Global Majority settings.
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