{"id":938247,"date":"2025-06-13T06:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938247"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:30:46","slug":"nairobi-startups-bid-to-be-operating-system-for-global-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/13\/nairobi-startups-bid-to-be-operating-system-for-global-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi startup&#8217;s bid to be &#8216;operating system for global South&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; prosaic problems in the here and now. <\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Kate Kallot aims for Amini &#8212; still a relatively small firm with $6 million in funding and 25 employees &#8212; to become &#8220;the operating system for the Global South&#8221; in the coming years, creating the infrastructure foundation for others to build AI and data processing applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; prosaic problems in the here and now. Chief executive Kate Kallot aims for Amini &#8212; still a relatively small firm with $6 million in funding and 25 employees &#8212; to become &#8220;the operating system for the Global South&#8221; in the coming years, creating the infrastructure foundation for others to build AI and data processing applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}