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Explosive Advances in Foundation Models, Agentic AI, and Generative Media

By Mulubwa Chungu (Technical Lead at BongoHive Consult – Backend & DevOps, Gen AI Core Team) This past week in AI delivered another rapid-fire series of breakthroughs, with major model releases, next-gen agents, enterprise integrations, and creative AI platforms reshaping how companies build and deploy intelligent systems. Google, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Mistral, HeyGen, and others made… Read more »

From Vision to Victory: Real Stories from Zambia’s Women in Tech—and Why You Should Apply Now

In Zambia’s vibrant tech landscape, a quiet revolution is underway—led by women who dared to dream, build, and scale. The Women in Tech Zambia Accelerator, implemented by BongoHive Innovations and funded by Standard Chartered Foundation, has become a launchpad for female entrepreneurs transforming ideas into impactful ventures. With the application deadline extended to 8th June… Read more »

Explosive Advances in Developer Agents, Multimodal Media, and Workplace AI

By Mulubwa Chungu (Technical Lead at BongoHive Consult – Backend & DevOps, Gen AI Core Team) This past week has been a whirlwind in artificial intelligence, with significant strides across AI coding agents, multimodal video generation, and productivity tools. OpenAI, Google, and Tencent unveiled groundbreaking technologies, while Notion and Meta introduced innovations to enhance workplace… Read more »

Major Trends and Highlights Exciting Leaps in Reasoning, Open-Source Models, and AI Assistants

By Mulubwa Chungu (Technical Lead at BongoHive Consult – Backend & DevOps, Gen AI Core Team) This past week has been another whirlwind for artificial intelligence. In just a few days, we saw Meta unveil a standalone AI app and free Llama API preview, Nvidia push reasoning benchmarks higher, Google aims its models at dolphin… Read more »

Major Trends and Highlights Exciting Leaps in Images, Agents, and Embodied Models

By Mulubwa Chungu – Technical Lead, BongoHive Consult | Gen AI Core Team Support Lead From OpenAI unleashing its multimodal image brain to robots learning to box, the spectrum of advances; software, agents, and hardware shows that intelligence is spilling out of chat windows and into every product surface (and even punching bags). 🎨 OpenAI… Read more »

A (Last) Week in AI: Major Trends and Highlights

Exciting Leaps in Video, Coding, and Next-Gen Models By Mulubwa Chungu – Technical Lead, BongoHive Consult | Gen AI Core Team Support Lead This past week marked a major turning point in artificial intelligence. From video generation breakthroughs to next-gen models and enhanced productivity tools, tech giants like Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and ByteDance are… Read more »

Empowering Water Sector PR with AI: BongoHive Consult Hosts Workshop with NWASCO

On April 16, 2025, BongoHive Consult partnered with the National Water Supply and Sanitation Council (NWASCO) to host a forward-looking workshop titled “AI for Public Relations in Water & Sanitation: Tools, Ethics & Crisis Response.” Held at Southern Sun Hotel in Lusaka, the session brought together communications professionals from water utilities across Zambia to explore… Read more »

Catching Up with the Women in Tech One Year On

Last year, six exceptional female-led startups emerged as the top winners of the Standard Chartered Women in Tech Incubator Program – Cohort 4. Each business received $10,000 in equity-free grant funding, alongside hands-on mentorship and strategic training. To find out how these women are doing one year later, our Marketing & Communications Lead, Tilyenji Mwanza… Read more »