Africa’s AI infrastructure
Intelligence,
from the source.
GPU cloud, inference API, and African language models — powered by 6.45 GW of Ethiopian hydroelectric. The only AI infrastructure on the continent with local latency and full data sovereignty.
$0.03
kWh energy cost
5ms
local latency
10
African languages
100%
renewable energy
Platform
Four products.
One infrastructure.
Early access
GPU Cloud
On-demand NVIDIA, AMD, and Huawei accelerators. 55% cheaper than AWS. Pre-configured environments with InfiniBand interconnect.
—H100, B200, MI300X, Ascend 910B
—$1.20 – $2.50 / GPU / hr
—PyTorch, JAX, vLLM pre-configured
—Training + batch inference
Early access
Inference API
The only low-latency inference endpoint on the African continent. OpenAI-compatible. African language models included.
—5–20ms latency within East Africa
—OpenAI-compatible — any SDK works
—Amharic, Oromo, Swahili models
—30% below OpenAI pricing
Early access
Dedicated Endpoints
Your own model on a dedicated GPU. Private URL, guaranteed throughput, no shared traffic. Fixed monthly pricing your procurement team can approve.
—Private URL: yourco.nileai.com
—Deploy our models or your own fine-tunes
—Guaranteed latency + throughput SLA
—Fixed monthly billing from $500/mo
Partnerships open
Sovereign AI
National AI infrastructure for governments. Citizen data never leaves Africa. Custom language models for your population.
—Full data sovereignty
—No foreign data-sharing treaties
—Custom national language models
—Dedicated account + multi-year SLA
Language Models
AI that speaks
Africa.
Fine-tuned on 692K rows of African language data. Built on production NLU from Tibeb AI, our multilingual agent serving users on the Ethiopian Securities Exchange.
All models are OpenAI API-compatible. Change your base URL — everything else stays the same.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.nileai.com/v1",
api_key="nk_live_..."
)
r = client.chat.completions.create(
model="nile-amharic-8b",
messages=[{"role": "user",
"content": "ሰላም እንደምን ነዎት?"}]
)
print(r.choices[0].message.content)nile-amharic-8b
Banking, government, customer support
nile-oromo-8b
Agriculture, commerce, education
nile-swahili-8b
East African commerce, media, finance
nile-tigrinya-8b
Eritrea / Ethiopia government
nile-somali-8b
Horn of Africa services
nile-yoruba-8b
West African banking, media
nile-hausa-8b
Northern Nigeria commerce
nile-zulu-8b
South African enterprise
nile-igbo-8b
Southeast Nigeria
nile-kinyarwanda-8b
Rwanda government, finance
Vertical AI
Domain-specific models.
Not chatbots. Engines.
Fine-tuned models for the three industries where AI will have the most impact in Africa. Same API, same SDK, same infrastructure — specialized for the domain.
Early access
Healthcare
nile-health-core
Sovereign diagnostic AI for rural health. Trained on Ethiopian medical guidelines, WHO protocols, and symptom-diagnosis mappings in Amharic and Oromo. Provides triage-level guidance for health extension workers and patients in areas without a doctor.
—Symptom triage in Amharic and Oromo
—WHO clinical protocol compliance
—Drug interaction checks (Ethiopian formulary)
—Referral recommendations with urgency scoring
Patient: "መቶፍ አለኝ ሰውነቴይ ይሰማኝናል"
Model: Classifies symptoms → Suggests triage level → Recommends nearest health post
For: Ministry of Health, NGOs, private clinics, telemedicine platforms
Early access
Agriculture
nile-agri-core
Agentic farming assistant that doesn’t just advise — it acts. Trained on Ethiopian agricultural extension data, crop calendars, market prices, and pest identification. Connected to payment and logistics rails.
—Crop disease identification from descriptions
—Real-time market price lookup and sell timing
—Input recommendations (seeds, fertilizer, pesticide)
—Logistics trigger: book transport via API
Farmer (Oromo): Describes crop problem via USSD
Model: Identifies rust disease → Recommends fungicide → Triggers input delivery + Telebirr payment
For: Ministry of Agriculture, agri-input companies, cooperatives, NGOs
Early access
Credit Scoring
nile-credit-core
The trust layer for the unbanked. Builds credit profiles from non-traditional data — utility payments, mobile money history, logistics activity — so banks can safely lend to micro-entrepreneurs without collateral.
—Alternative data credit scoring (utilities, mobile, logistics)
—Risk classification for micro and SME lending
—Fraud pattern detection on transaction histories
—Regulatory-compliant: data never leaves Ethiopia
Bank sends: anonymized customer profile (Telebirr history, utility payments)
Model returns: credit score + risk tier + recommended loan ceiling
For: CBE, Dashen, Awash, microfinance institutions, fintechs
Same API: All vertical models use the same POST /v1/chat/completions endpoint. Switch from the general Amharic model to a healthcare-specific model by changing one parameter: model: "nile-health-core". Your integration code doesn’t change. Available as shared API or dedicated endpoint.
Inference API
The fastest AI endpoint
on the continent.
Every African startup calling OpenAI routes through US data centers at 200–300ms. We serve locally.
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Annual savings
$50,688
Nile / month
$3,456
Market / month
$7,680
Enterprise
Sovereign AI for nations.
Co-location for global tech.
For governments
National AI that stays national.
Citizen data processed on African soil. Custom language models for your population. No CLOUD Act, no Five Eyes.
—Dedicated isolated clusters
—Custom fine-tuned national language models
—Multi-year contracts with guaranteed capacity
—In discussions with Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa
For global tech
Your African AI node. Carbon-zero.
Train multilingual models on African data, in Africa. No cross-border transfer issues. No carbon offsets. 100% hydroelectric.
—Co-locate your African training node
—Pre-trained African language baselines included
—Zero carbon for your ESG report
—Serve 400M+ African users at local latency
Local payments
Pay in Birr.
The only AI provider you can.
Every other GPU cloud and AI API requires USD payment. For Ethiopian companies, that means forex applications, bank approvals, and months of waiting. We accept Ethiopian Birr directly.
Telebirr
Pay for inference and compute directly from your Telebirr wallet. Instant settlement, no forex required.
Coming soon
Bank Transfer (ETB)
Direct ETB transfer from CBE, Dashen, Awash, or any Ethiopian bank. Monthly invoicing for enterprise customers.
Coming soon
USD / USDC
International customers pay in USD via wire, credit card, or USDC stablecoin. Standard for global teams.
Early access
How it works: Ethiopian companies pay in Birr at the prevailing exchange rate. We settle our compute infrastructure costs in USD using our 100% foreign exchange retention permit under NBE Directive FXD/04/2026. You get AI. We handle the forex.
Agentic Gateway
The hands,
not just the brain.
Inference gives AI a brain. The Agentic Gateway gives it hands. Pre-built tool functions that let any AI agent — even one running on a competitor’s GPU — execute real transactions in Ethiopia.
These tools require bank partnerships, government API access, and regulatory relationships that took years to build through EthioShare. No competitor can replicate this.
telebirr_pay()early accessProcess payments via Telebirr. Send or receive ETB between any two Telebirr accounts. Supports B2C disbursements, C2B collections, and P2P transfers.
Parameters
amount: float, recipient: str, reference: str
Returns
{ transaction_id, status, timestamp }
ethioshare_trade()early accessExecute buy/sell orders on the Ethiopian Securities Exchange. Place market or limit orders through any of our 10 partner bank brokers.
Parameters
action: "buy" | "sell", symbol: str, quantity: int, price: float | null
Returns
{ order_id, status, filled_qty, avg_price }
fayda_verify()coming soonVerify identity through Ethiopia’s Fayda national digital ID system. KYC in one API call. Returns verified name, age bracket, and region without exposing raw PII.
Parameters
fayda_id: str, consent_token: str
Returns
{ verified: bool, name_hash, region, age_bracket }
bank_transfer()coming soonInitiate ETB transfers between any Ethiopian bank accounts. Supports CBE, Dashen, Awash, Abyssinia, and 6 others via EthSwitch integration.
Parameters
from_bank: str, to_bank: str, account: str, amount: float
Returns
{ transfer_id, status, settlement_time }
credit_score()coming soonGet a credit risk assessment using alternative data. Analyzes Telebirr history, utility payments, and logistics activity to score unbanked individuals.
Parameters
customer_id: str, data_sources: list[str]
Returns
{ score: int, risk_tier, max_loan_etb, confidence }
logistics_dispatch()coming soonTrigger physical fulfillment. Book transport for agricultural goods, schedule delivery, or dispatch a rider. Connected to local logistics networks.
Parameters
pickup: Location, dropoff: Location, cargo_type: str
Returns
{ dispatch_id, eta_minutes, driver_phone, cost_etb }
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.nileai.com/v1", api_key="nk_live_...")
# The agent reasons in Oromo, then acts
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="nile-agri-core",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Farmer needs 50kg DAP fertilizer delivered to Jimma"}],
tools=[
{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "credit_score", ...}},
{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "telebirr_pay", ...}},
{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "logistics_dispatch", ...}},
]
)
# Agent: checks credit -> approves -> pays via Telebirr -> dispatches deliveryThe moat: Any AI can reason. Only Nile AI can act in Ethiopia. These tool integrations require bank partnerships, government API access, and regulatory relationships. Developers rent inference from anyone — they pay us for the action layer that makes their AI useful on the ground.
Infrastructure
Why Ethiopia.
Power
—GERD hydroelectric — 6.45 GW, 100% renewable
—10-year PPA at $0.025–0.035/kWh
—On-site BESS for uninterrupted operation
—99.95% power availability target
Network
—Three submarine cables via Djibouti
—Addis → Nairobi: ~15–25ms
—Addis → Lagos: ~40–60ms
—Addis → Frankfurt: ~80–100ms
Compute
—NVIDIA H100/B200, AMD MI300X, Huawei Ascend 910B
—InfiniBand NDR 400Gbps
—Kubernetes + GPU Operator
—PyTorch, JAX, vLLM, DeepSpeed
Sovereignty
—No foreign intelligence data-sharing treaties
—Non-aligned multi-vendor supply chain
—AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
—Cryptographic erasure within 24h
Team
Second-time founders.
We built EthioShare.com — the primary back-office system for the Ethiopian Securities Exchange, used by 10 Ethiopian banks including the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. We built Tibeb AI, the multilingual AI agent that handles stock trading in Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Somali, and English. Nile AI is our second company — taking the language AI we built for finance and making it available to every industry across Africa.
10
Ethiopian bank partners
5
languages in production
692K
Amharic training rows
Nile AI Fellowship
Brain gain,
not brain drain.
Africa’s best ML talent is being recruited to remote roles at Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We’re building the reason for them to stay — or come back.
For researchers
What you get.
For Nile AI
What we build together.
Applications open for Cohort 1.
PhD students, postdocs, and ML researchers based in or willing to relocate to Ethiopia.
FAQ
Common questions.
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