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  "name": "African AI Trust Index",
  "publisher": "Mlatho",
  "url": "https://benchmark.mlatho.com/",
  "claimTier": "T1_preview",
  "status": "stake_live_scores_pending",
  "description": "Public rankings and methodology for measuring African-language and African-context AI systems. Lab invents, Benchmark proves, App monetizes, Learn trains.",
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    "lab": "https://lab.mlatho.com/",
    "learn": "https://learn.mlatho.com/",
    "status": "https://status.mlatho.com/",
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  "dimensions": [
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    "culturalUnderstanding",
    "businessReadiness",
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  "hedge": "The African AI Trust Index Preview is a small human-evaluated set focused on Chichewa and African context. Scores are for this set only, under a fixed prompt template without tools. They are not a universal ranking of model quality.",
  "updatedAt": "2026-08-01T00:00:00Z"
}