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Media
Resources for journalists, editors, broadcasters, and analysts covering PhotonAI's work to build Africa's sovereign AI infrastructure. For press enquiries, contact press@photonai.ai.
About PhotonAI
Short (1 sentence)
PhotonAI is building Africa's sovereign AI infrastructure — data centres, foundation models, and a developer API for 1.5 billion people across 54 nations.
Medium (2–3 sentences)
PhotonAI Ltd is an African AI infrastructure company building the continent's first sovereign AI compute network — four data centres in Mauritius, Kenya, Uganda, and Morocco, foundation models trained from scratch on African languages and data, and a developer API priced for African markets and paid in local currencies via BoomPay. PhotonAI is backed by its Series A fundraise of $124 million and is a Boom Technologies Ltd company. The company was founded by Peter Alfred-Adekeye.
Long (paragraph)
PhotonAI Ltd is building Africa's sovereign AI infrastructure stack: the data centres, the foundation models, and the developer API that will serve a continent of 1.5 billion people — the world's youngest population — in their own languages, under their own jurisdiction, at prices their markets can sustain. The company is raising a $124 million Series A to fund talent acquisition, data centre construction across four Phase 1 sites (Mauritius, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco), and the training of PhotonAI-1, the continent's first African-built foundation model. PhotonAI is a Boom Technologies Ltd company. Inference is available from 2027; own hardware goes live in 2028.