Pearl Chat launches as a native Luganda language model for Uganda

weskambale · x · 2026-10-15

AI for Uganda Initiative has launched Pearl Chat, a native Luganda language model and conversational assistant for Uganda. The web app supports dialog, text continuation, and translation, with sample prompt categories covering greetings, Ugandan culture, and education/daily life. It's billed as an early base model that may make mistakes — a rare AI product built for a low-resource African language.

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