Advancing artificial intelligence for Africa.
Rift Research is an Africa-first AI research organization developing responsible AI through scientific research, engineering, and interdisciplinary collaboration — partnering with researchers, institutions, governments, and industry on meaningful challenges across healthcare, language, and beyond.
Research
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MicrovisionSurgical intelligence
Microvision: vision models for the operating room
Applying computer vision to surgical scenes — toward safer, better-instrumented procedures across African health systems.
Language map — multilingual models
LanguageMultimodality
Frontier capabilities for low-resource languages
Multilinguality, post-training, and vision-language models for the languages the field leaves behind.
Mission
Built to endure.
We advance artificial intelligence through research, engineering, and interdisciplinary collaboration — to solve Africa's most pressing challenges.
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