Pelonomi Moiloa

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Lelapa AI

Pelonomi Moiloa is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Lelapa AI.

Lelapa AI is a South African research and product lab building resource-efficient language AI for African languages, including the Vulavula platform. Moiloa co-founded it with chief technology officer Jade Abbott.

In the job

  1. Lelapa AI hosted a Demo Day showing its Vula Vula platform and InkubaLM language model. Source

  2. Lelapa AI said it would expand its Vulavula platform with text-to-speech and new languages beyond Africa. Source

Career before

  1. Data scientist, a South African bank

Education

BSc Eng (Biomedical) 2014 and BSc Eng (Electrical) 2015, University of the Witwatersrand; master's degree 2016, Tohoku University

Sources

  1. time.com
  2. wits.ac.za
  3. iafrikan.com
  4. itweb.co.za
  5. lelapa.ai

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