2026
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2026 edition

The AI in Africa State of the Industry Report 2026

Infrastructure, Regulation, Ecosystem Readiness and Investment Across 54 Nations

Africa's AI trajectory in 2026 is set less by the pace of model development than by four structural constraints: electricity, connectivity, compute access and regulatory capacity. This edition examines each across the continent's fifty-four states, and argues that treating them as background conditions rather than as t...

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The annual report is the long view. Between editions, the Global South pillar carries the reporting — national strategies, infrastructure, regulatory capacity and the language technology gap.