Driving Local Innovation with Open-Source AI
OpenRay.ai is a research foundation making open-source AI work for African contexts — adapting models, building tools, and creating evaluations by and for the region.
Local contexts need local models.
Global AI systems often miss the details that matter in African workflows - local data, languages, institutional workflows, and policy environments. OpenRay adapts open models to the data, constraints, and use cases of the region.
Open source builds trust.
AI systems that cannot be inspected are hard to trust. OpenRay develops in the open — sharing model weights, training code, evaluation artifacts, tools, and documentation so researchers and builders can audit, improve, and deploy them.
Ship tools, not just papers.
We do research with deployment in mind. Every model, benchmark, and paper is designed to move toward usable tools — practical systems that African teams can build on, test, and ship.
Projects
Naija Privacy Filter
A LoRA adapter on OpenAI's privacy-filter base model, fine-tuned for Nigerian PII.