Thank You
This work would not exist without the organisations, evaluators, and researchers driving African AI forward.
To the Zindi evaluators and challenge coordinators who reviewed submissions, maintained the private leaderboard, and ensured a rigorous evaluation process — thank you. Your work transforms a competition into a contribution to the field.
By making quantised GGUF weights publicly available, both teams enabled fully local, open safety research — no cloud compute required. This is what open science looks like.
The organisations below represent the institutional backbone of African AI research and digital infrastructure. Their collective investment in the continent's technology ecosystem makes challenges like this one possible.
To the Masakhane community and every researcher who has ever painstakingly built a dataset, a tokeniser, or a benchmark for an under-resourced African language — this red-team exercise stands on your shoulders.