Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
Mandi Is Building an Ivorian Foundation Model
Mandi is an Abidjan-based AI organization developing Ibö, a foundation model trained from scratch for Ivorian French and local languages.
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- AI researchers, builders, and language communities in Côte d'Ivoire
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- The planned 100-million-parameter model covers tokenizer, corpus, training, evaluation, and service without a third-party base model.
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Mandi presents Ibö as a from-scratch project spanning tokenizer, corpus, training, evaluation, and serving rather than a wrapper around an existing model. The homepage highlights French as the primary language while naming Nouchi, Baoulé, and Dioula, and says its datasets will be documented, licensed, and traceable. The model card marks the system as v0.1 and in development; it lists a 100M-parameter target, while another homepage label announces Ibö 30M.
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