Nairobi startup’s bid to be ‘operating system for global South’

Paris: Away from the heady rush to build ultra-capable, sci-fi style artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, ambitious Nairobi-based startup Amini AI is betting on the technology addressing emerging countries’ prosaic problems in the here and now.

Chief executive Kate Kallot aims for Amini — still a relatively small firm with $6 million in funding and 25 employees — to become “the operating system for the Global South” in the coming years, creating the infrastructure foundation for others to build AI and data processing applications.