Nigeria, Oct. 22 -- The Federal Government has proposed a shared artificial intelligence (AI) computing infrastructure with Rwanda, Senegal and Kenya to strengthen Africa's capacity to develop and run AI models.

Bosun Tijani, minister of communications, innovation and digital economy, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at the Build 2026 conference organised by the Nigeria AI Collective.

Speaking through Olubunmi Ajala, national director of the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR), Tijani said the initiative would enable participating countries to pool their graphics processing unit (GPU) resources to undertake computing tasks beyond the capacity of individual countries.

The conference was themed "Building...