Pearl Chat, a native Luganda language model, nears open-weight paper release
weskambale · x · 2026-10-11
Developer weskambale says the technical paper from their PyCon Africa workshop is 95% complete, detailing the full process of building Pearl Chat, a native Luganda language model, with open weights to be released upon publication.
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