Kenyan startup Fastagger builds offline AI for small businesses

Fastagger, a three-person Kenyan startup, builds AI models that run offline on low-power phones.

Its Auni assistant, integrated into M-Pesa's business app, analyzes mobile-money transaction data for about 6,000 businesses such as barbershops and restaurants and gives marketing recommendations, according to IEEE Spectrum.

The same report describes a workforce tool for security guards and a researcher's concern that small regional models could split access to AI. The article does not state how much the Auni recommendations raise sales.