{"id":97199,"date":"2024-08-01T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/cassava-technologies-launches-ai-business-unit"},"modified":"2024-08-02T00:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T22:55:24","slug":"cassava-technologies-launches-ai-business-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/cassava-technologies-launches-ai-business-unit","title":{"rendered":"Cassava technologies launches AI business unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>DEVELOPING markets technology systems integrator Cassava Technologies (Cassava) says its artificial intelligence (AI) activities will now operate as a separate business unit called Cassava AI.<\/p>\n<p>Cassava, headquartered in the UK, was founded by African entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa and includes many leading global institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCassava AI is headquartered in London and can already provide services in any of the 40-plus markets in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, where the Cassava Technologies group companies operate,\u201d Hardy Pemhiwa, president and group CEO, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAhmed El Beheiry, a veteran technology and telecoms executive, will lead this business unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the advent of generative AI, Cassava has forged strategic partnerships with industry giants such as Microsoft, Google, AWS, Anthropic, Oracle, Atlas AI, Cerebras and Palo Alto Networks.<\/p>\n<p>These partnerships enable it to offer superior systems integration and support to enterprise customers across strategic international markets.<\/p>\n<p>Cassava already provides services such as data centres, cloud, cyber security, fibre connectivity, and renewable energy to large multinational and local companies.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation has already trained and deployed more than 200 people of its 5000-strong staff to empower customers to adopt and use generative AI services from the world\u2019s leading vendors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. DEVELOPING markets technology systems integrator Cassava Technologies (Cassava) says its artificial intelligence (AI) activities will now operate as a separate business unit called Cassava AI. 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