Lugha-Llama
Lugha-Llama is a Llama-3.1-8B model continually pretrained on the WURA African-language corpus to lift performance on low-resource African languages. It ships in three variants (wura, wura_edu, wura_math) and reaches leading results among similarly sized models on the IrokoBench and AfriQA African-language benchmarks. It was built by researchers at Princeton University.
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- AI Resources
- Pricing
- Open weights (Llama 3.1 community license)
- Country
- 🌍 Pan-African
- Last verified
- 25 Aug 2026
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