22 August 2026Twenty-Two Million Speakers, Sixty-Two Million Words
Somali is listed in the world’s major language models and effectively absent from them. China faced a version of this question a century ago and answered it before it had any technology to protect. That decision is the most useful thing Somalia can learn from Beijing, and it costs nothing.
Articles19 August 2026Somalia’s Most Valuable Chinese Tech Import Is Not a Model. It Is a Megawatt.
Somalia has built the ministry, the strategy, the regulator and the national AI centre. What it has not built is the grid that would let any of them compute. Generation and transmission are what China builds better than anyone, and they belong at the top of the agenda.
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