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A petaflop on a desk - rethinking AI infrastructure for South Africa
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (518+ words) The ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N from Altron Arrow South African organisations have stopped asking what AI might do for them. The questions now are operational: how to deploy it, where it should run, how much compute it needs, and what that…...
The AI utopia South Africa can't afford
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (276+ words) Ask the people building AI where it all leads and the answer is paradise. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, argues in his essay, Moore’s Law for Everything, that AI will drive the cost of goods and services towards zero, because labour…...
How AI could quietly hollow out South Africa's job market
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (971+ words) Snap cut a thousand employees in mid-April, about 16% of its workforce, after saying AI now writes more than 65% of its new code. It was the latest in a global wave of AI-linked job cuts. In South Africa, where the official…...
AI moves from pilots to production in South African companies
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (768+ words) From boardrooms to back offices, South African companies are moving beyond AI hype and into execution. But as pressure builds to show tangible return on investment, business leaders are looking for practical, proven AI use cases they can deploy today,…...
South Africa's first AI factory now live, powered by Altron and Nvidia
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (299+ words) Pieta Heyns, MD of Dataviue, one of the AI Factory launch customers, said: “This platform offers cutting-edge AI capabilities while ensuring our clients’ data remains protected under South African regulations – eliminating compliance concerns that arise with offshore solutions.” MathU’s founder,…...
The economist who thinks AI could double South Africa's growth rate
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (713+ words) AI could add as much as two percentage points to South Africa’s annual economic growth rate, on top of whatever the economy would otherwise manage, according to Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt – an estimate that towers over what either…...
Radical rethink for South Africa's national AI policy
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (653+ words) South Africa’s redrafted national AI policy will not prescribe rules to industry. Instead, individual sectors will be left to write their own AI strategies off a set of national guidelines. That is according to department of communications & digital technologies acting…...
South Africa can still catch the AI wave - here's how
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (224+ words) displaces. Get it wrong, and it imports its intelligence, its robots and its inequality, and pays for...
The case against a light-touch AI policy for South Africa
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (327+ words) South Africa should regulate AI through binding rules anchored in the constitution rather than through voluntary ethical principles and self-regulation, according to a University of Cape Town doctoral thesis. Minister Solly Malatsi has staked South Africa’s AI future on staying…...
Beijing's AI master plan has South Africa in its sights
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (292+ words) For a country that South Africa counts among its closest economic partners, the document is worth reading closely. It is, in the words of the plan’s own digital chapter (in translation), a drive to “fully implement the ‘AI Plus’ initiative…...