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FundingMasakhane names 26 LINGUA Africa grantees from 800 applications across 64 countriesOpportunityAskya opens a $200,000 zero-equity AI accelerator, applications close 30 SeptemberInfrastructureKenya's $1bn Microsoft and G42 data centre stalls on grid capacityLanguageSix African operators ship Swahili first in the GSMA language model pushComputeCassava's Cape Town AI factory goes live, 20MW planned for JohannesburgResearchDeep Learning Indaba convenes in Lagos for its 2026 editionTelecomMTN targets 150MW of AI data centre capacity in Nigeria and South AfricaCommunityGAiF Creator Series reaches episode 14 with Learn with EmnetFundingMasakhane names 26 LINGUA Africa grantees from 800 applications across 64 countriesOpportunityAskya opens a $200,000 zero-equity AI accelerator, applications close 30 SeptemberInfrastructureKenya's $1bn Microsoft and G42 data centre stalls on grid capacityLanguageSix African operators ship Swahili first in the GSMA language model pushComputeCassava's Cape Town AI factory goes live, 20MW planned for JohannesburgResearchDeep Learning Indaba convenes in Lagos for its 2026 editionTelecomMTN targets 150MW of AI data centre capacity in Nigeria and South AfricaCommunityGAiF Creator Series reaches episode 14 with Learn with Emnet

Tool

Kie.ai: One API, Multiple AI Models

Simplifying access to AI models

By Richmond Aghia· 15 Sept 2026· 2 min readGAiF-T029

I’ve tested quite a few generative AI tools, but Kie.ai caught my attention for a different reason. Instead of forcing you to choose one AI video generator, it gives you access to several powerful models from one place.

Think about it this way: you might prefer Veo for one video, Kling for another, and Seedance for something completely different. Normally, accessing all these models separately means creating different accounts, understanding different systems, and potentially paying different providers. Kie.ai is trying to simplify that.

Creator · Nigeria

GAiF Content Creator Series Ep 14: Learn with Emnet

Practical AI education for creators

Meet Learn with Emnet – a Nigerian AI educator and content creator helping creators understand and apply generative AI in practical ways. Emnet focuses on simplifying AI tools through easy-to-follow tutorials, making it easier for beginners, entrepreneurs, and content creators to use AI to improve their workflow, create better content, and build digital skills.

In this video, Emnet introduces 3 free AI video generation tools that help creators bring folktales, narrated stories, and AI-generated films to life without a large budget. She compares different AI video models, demonstrates how each platform works, and explains which tools are best suited for storytelling. Whether you're creating African folktales, short films, or experimenting with AI video generation for the first time, this beginner-friendly tutorial provides a practical starting point.

Update

The New gaif.ai Is Live

A redesigned front page, a Vlogs page built for actually watching, and clearer paths to get involved, all live on gaif.ai starting today.

gaif.ai looks different this week, and it is not just a coat of paint. We rebuilt the site from the ground up: a new home, a new front page for our blog, and a new way to watch, all built around how this community actually shows up, mostly on a phone, mostly on the move, looking for the next thing to build. If it has been a while since your last visit, go look. Start with Sasa, our blog. It finally has a real front page: the masthead up top, a live weather strip across the African cities we actually have builders in, a running wire of what is happening in African AI, and a lead story that changes instead of sitting still. Every piece we have published, tool breakdowns, creator profiles, explainers, opinion, now lives on a page built for reading it, not just scrolling past it.

Watch got its own rebuild too. GAiF Vlogs now opens on a full carousel, plays inline right where you are, and pops out to a bigger view when you want one. Filter by Originals, Curated, a creator, or a topic, and the same player follows you back to the front page so a video does not have to stop just because you scrolled. Built for a phone screen and an unreliable connection first, because that is how most of you are actually watching.