AfriqueLLM Collection
[ingest-scout] Suite of 10 open large language models from McGill-NLP adapted for 20–50 African languages via continued pre-training on 26–35B tokens; includes AfriqueLlama-8B, AfriqueQwen variants (4B–14B), and AfriqueGemma variants (4B–12B). Backed by ACL 2026 research paper (arXiv:2601.06395); models updated June 2026 with active downloads. Covers languages not served by registry entries (Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo, Wolof, Bambara, Moroccan/Egyptian/Tunisian Arabic, Malagasy, Afrikaans, etc.).
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- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
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