AI inclusion is the next frontier for Tether expansion. - billions of people can't afford to pay for AI - they can't be left out of the biggest tech revolution of our times Tether AI developed an high-quality AI translation model that supports 18 African languages and can operate 100% locally on devices (smartphones and laptops), without the need of connectivity. TranslatePsy-AfriSLM outperforms far larger AI models, despite containing just 800 million parameters, the smallest TranslatePsy-AfriSLM model outperformed Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, TranslateGemma-27B, and NLLB-3.3B across the FLORES-200, BOUQuET, and SMOL translation benchmarks. It supports Hausa, Amharic, Yoruba, Lingala, Swahili, Igbo, Zulu, Somali, Oromo, Malagasy, Kinyarwanda, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Wolof, Luganda, Nyanja, Shona, Tswana, and Southern Sotho. Unstoppable Together.(Paolo Ardoino 🤖)