
Ivy - Bringing LLMs to 35 Million offline students in Ethiopia
Hi everyone, I’m writing this from Addis Ababa. While the world is talking about the latest LLM cloud features, 35 million students in Ethiopia are being left behind because they simply don't have stable internet or the hardware to run "modern" education. I’ve spent the last few months building Ivy a specialized, offline tutor designed to run on low-end Android devices with zero connectivity. it’s an architecture built on edge-inference and local language support (Amharic) so that a kid in a rural village has the same educational "co-pilot" as someone in London or New York. I’m a solo founder, and I’m currently 95% of the way through a global AWS challenge to get this project the resources it needs to scale. I’ve reached 50 likes on my own, but I’m at a point where I need the support of the broader tech community to reach the Top 50 and secure the next round of funding/support. If you believe that state of the art education should be a tool for all students not just those with a fiber
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