Ugandan Team Releases Pearl Chat, a 350M-Parameter Luganda Model

Uganda's AI for Uganda team released pearl-chat-350m-it, a 350M-parameter Luganda dialogue model, a major upgrade over earlier 46m/85m versions. The developer demonstrated its fluent native Luganda capabilities, though training compute has run out.

2026-11-14 ~ 2026-11-14 · 2 related posts

• Uganda team ships 350M-param Luganda chat model, but compute is exhausted — weskambale · 2026-11-14
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