Cassava to resell Anthropic’s Claude AI models in Africa

Pan-African technology group Cassava Technologies has been authorised to resell Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models through Amazon Bedrock, giving African businesses another way to access advanced AI tools.

Amazon Bedrock is Amazon Web Services’ platform for building and running generative AI applications. It lets organisations plug AI models into their own software and processes without building models from scratch.

Through the deal, African companies, governments and institutions can access Claude through a local technology partner. The models can handle reasoning, image analysis, code generation and multiple languages.

“What matters to our customers is being able to use AI in their business, and that starts with access to the best models,” said Hardy Pemhiwa, president and group chief executive of Cassava.

“Our goal is simple, advanced AI within reach of every business, government, researcher, entrepreneur and university across the emerging markets globally.”

The move builds on Cassava’s existing business in connectivity, cloud computing and cybersecurity across Africa.

The firm also runs a data centre network that it is positioning to meet rising demand for AI services.

Cassava, founded by Strive Masiyiwa, has been building out its AI infrastructure on the continent. It is deploying an Nvidia-powered “AI Factory” at its South African data centres and has launched a GPU-as-a-service offering.

Last week, the World Bank Group named Cassava a knowledge partner in a new initiative to give emerging-market governments shared, pay-as-you-go access to AI computing power.

African businesses are increasingly exploring generative AI for customer support, software development, document processing and internal operations.

Wider adoption, however, depends on access to reliable cloud infrastructure and the skills needed to deploy AI responsibly.

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