Prize
Africa AI X-Prize
An Africa-focused open-source AI competition offering USD 10 million in total prizes for solutions that reduce inference costs by 50-100 times. It has a phone-first Local AI track advertising USD 300,000 and an API-Served track advertising up to USD 5 million for the Platinum award.
About this opportunity
Solutions must be open source, reproducible, and royalty-free for African use. Registered teams receive access to a subsidized shared GPU pool and a continuous public benchmark. The official challenge launch is scheduled for the Moonshot conference in Lagos in October 2026; the current page offers early team registration rather than a complete dated application brief.
Status history
1Accepting applications
The official page currently invites teams to register for early access and describes the tracks and benefits, while placing the complete official launch at Moonshot Lagos in October 2026. No submission deadline is published yet.
Current application seasons
1Past seasons
0No past season is published yet.
Published recipients
0No recipients are published yet.