PhotonAI is building the foundational models, data centres, inference and orbital infrastructure 1.5 billion Africans deserve — trained on African languages, knowledge and values.
Africa’s sovereign foundation language model — trained from inception on African languages, African knowledge, and African values. Built for the continent, owned by the continent. Coming 2027.
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A frontier AI cyberdefence large language model with the ability to scan, detect and autonomously secure patches for zero-day vulnerabilities across every software-driven production device on Earth.
Archangel is eternal — because there will never be a final patch.
Sovereign AI Data Centres
Across Africa.
PhotonAI’s Phase 1 infrastructure programme is building four sovereign AI compute hubs across the African continent — providing pan-African AI infrastructure under African jurisdiction, on African power, for all 54 nations equally.
The NiO (Nodes-in-Orbit) Spaceport is Africa’s first equatorial commercial launch facility — positioned at the equator for maximum orbital efficiency, targeting first launch in 2032. It gives African nations, businesses and research institutions sovereign access to space for the first time, on African terms, under African control.
African governments, enterprises and research institutions will for the first time be able to launch satellites, payloads and experiments without routing through foreign space agencies or commercial providers at foreign pricing and on foreign schedules.
Operational 2032The NiO Spaceport will launch and maintain a constellation of nano-satellites running Boomchain settlement nodes in low Earth orbit — creating an independent, space-based layer for Boom’s blockchain infrastructure that is resilient to terrestrial disruption and accessible continent-wide.
Boom InfrastructureThe orbital constellation will provide broadband internet connectivity to underserved regions across Africa — extending coverage to areas where terrestrial infrastructure is constrained by geography or cost, and enabling Angel’s AI inference and Archangel’s cyberdefence to reach every corner of the continent.
NiO ConstellationSeries A now open.