Caleb Lwanga

Swahili is a cornerstone language of East Africa, spoken by over 200 million people globally and ranking among the top 10 most spoken languages in Africa (Actually, the most spoken in Africa). Today, over at Crane AI Labs (@Crails_Inc ) we introduce the first of the Crane Gemma family of models. The Swahili Gemma models are fine-tuned using @UnslothAI specifically for English–Swahili translation & Swahili conversational AI. This release introduces the 1B variant, with larger models planned for the future. Its key capabilities include translation from English to Swahili, in-context question answering, summarization, and basic conversation. 📌 Link to model collection: huggingface.co/collections/C… 💻 Try out Swahili Gemma now on your device via your preferred option: - Ollama (@ollama) : ollama.com/crane-ai-labs/swa… - Lm Studio (@lmstudio), Jan AI (@jandotai), Cactus (cactuscompute.com): huggingface.co/CraneAILabs/s… - Google Edge AI Gallery (@Google): huggingface.co/CraneAILabs/s… - Hugging Face (@huggingface) Transformers: huggingface.co/CraneAILabs/s… Extremely grateful to the Crane AI Labs (@Crails_Inc) team for all the work and effort that has been put into this over the last months. 🙏 Acknowledgments - @Google : For the Gemma 3 base model, support and guidance. - @Cohere_Labs: Research and guidance. - Community: For Swahili language resources and datasets - Kiplangat Korir (MsingiAI, Nairobi, Kenya) - Alfred Malengo Kondoro (Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea)