Huge Win Today 🎉🎉 Our team “Afri-Aya” just won this year’s CohereAI Aya Expedition Challenge. Our work focused on 1) curating and evaluating culturally relevant African vision dataset then 2) Fine-tuning the Aya vision model to support underrepresented languages in Africa. I represented my beloved Sierra Leone with the Krio language. Krio is a beautiful first language spoken by a majority of our population. It was a humbling and inspiring experience to have it recognized, thanks to the relentless effort of everyone on the team. Special thanks to BK for offering me this opportunity 🫡 and to Cohere AI for such an amazing global research expedition🙏
Lumier is an open-source tool for running macOS virtual machines in Docker containers on Apple Silicon Macs.
When building virtualized environments for AI agents, we needed a reliable way to package and distribute macOS VMs. Inspired by projects like dockur/macos that made macOS running in Docker possible, we wanted to create something similar but optimized for Apple Silicon.
The existing solutions either didn't support M-series chips or relied on KVM/Intel emulation, which was slow and cumbersome. We realized we could leverage Apple's Virtualization Framework to create a much better experience.
Lumier takes a different approach: It uses Docker as a delivery mechanism (not for isolation) and connects to a lightweight virtualization service (lume) running on your Mac.
Lumier is 100% open-source under MIT license and part of C/ua.