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So one thing that comes up repeatedly is how hard it still is for Ethiopian startups to access compute and early customers. Curious to see how much of that ends up reflected in the final master plan

Spending the morning here - Ethiopia’s Draft Master Plan for Startup Ecosystem Enhancement. Really interesting when founders, investors, and policymakers end up in the same room. Let’s see where the conversation goes. @b1n1yamBuilds

This is incredible

We are looking for Sidama, Tigrinya, and Wolaita speakers. If you are interested in contributing, join our Discord: 📱https://discord.gg/BqDxzkX3 @b1n1yamBuilds

Thank you, Apple. I respectfully decline.

Another one by @MickyCodes 👏 Love seeing the ecosystem grow beyond what we build ourselves. @b1n1yamBuilds

@software_guy did it again! Check out the flutter SDK for Addis AI. God i love this community! @b1n1yamBuilds

Same words. Four voices. Which one would you use? @kalBuilds

Quite a lot of local solutions being built on top of Addis AI, solving real problems. Honestly, this feels special.

Seeing a lot of awesome projects

I’ll be joining the Cursor AI Hackathon Ethiopia as a judge on July 25–26 at Adwa Museum. Looking forward to meeting the teams, seeing how they approach real problems, and reviewing what they build over the two days. @b1n1yamBuilds

One thing we've been trying to improve over the past few months is the developer experience. Good models aren't enough. They should also be easy to build with. Today we're shipping the Addis AI SDK. Excited to see what developers build with it. 📱NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/addisai 📱PIP: https://pypi.org/project/addisai

In @ScholarXIV we have 11 sources to get research and scientific literature, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, Europe PMC, PubMed, Clinical Trials, arXiv bioRxiv, medRxiv, chemRxiv, ChinaXiv, RussiaXiv... do you know how many papers we give you access to in just one search?? 819,498,820 Papers! Removing some overlaps it would come to 400M resources. Now in Ethiopia out of the ~138M people only ~12M can communicate in English meaning a large portion of literate Ethiopians can't even understand or these accurate results we provide. Through our partnership with @AddisAssistantAI and some other partnerships we're going to bridge that gap! Research and accurate AI responses aren't for researchers and advanced users, everyone everyday everywhere should get that.

Research shouldn’t be limited by the language you speak or the keyboard you type on. We’re partnering with @ScholarXIV to bring Addis AI’s speech and real-time models into academic research. Voice dictation, research insights you can listen to, and eventually deeper access to research in Amharic and Afaan Oromo. Excited to show you what we’re building together. @AddisAssistantAI

This is the part I’m most excited about with our @ScholarXIV partnership. Making serious research easier to access through voice, and eventually in our native languages. @b1n1yamBuilds

OpenAI says its models escaped a highly isolated testing environment, gained access to the internet, and hacked Hugging Face while trying to cheat on a cybersecurity evaluation. The models exploited a zero-day vulnerability, stole credentials, and found their way into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure, all autonomously. (OpenAI) Anyway, try sleeping peacefully tonight after reading that. @b1n1yamBuilds

I've been listening to these voices for months, so I already have my favorites. Now I'm curious what you'll create with them. If you end up making something you're proud of, send it my way. I'll repost a few of my favorites here over the next few days. And I might quietly send some Addis AI credits to the ones that genuinely surprise me. 🙂 addisassistant.com @Kalbuilds

For a public-facing use case, I really want to try it on a faceless short-form video and share the results. And btw, if you’re building with the API, or planning to, this is a great opportunity to get some credits. Would love to see what you create. @b1n1yamBuilds

We gave ElevenLabs, Google, OpenAI, and our model the same Amharic customer support script. Three of them can't greet a customer. 57 million people can hear which three. Sound on. @b1n1yamBuilds

Launch day. Voices 2 is live. 28 Lifelike voices for Amharic and Afaan Oromo. Huge thanks to our team, our community, and everyone who helped make this happen. Try it here: addisassistant.com @b1n1yamBuilds