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# Upeo Labs uses Llama to power Somo-GPT for Kenyan high schools
- URL: https://www.ai-360.online/upeo-labs-uses-llama-to-power-somo-gpt-for-kenyan-schools/
- Published: 2024-09-13T15:16:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-06T02:12:38.000Z
- Description: Kenyan startup Upeo Labs is running Somo-GPT, a Llama-powered teaching assistant, in closed beta at 500 high schools to support Kenya’s national curriculum digitisation.
- Author: AI-360
- Tags: 1. Enterprise AI, News, Meta, Llama, Upeo Labs

[Meta said on 11 September 2024](https://ai.meta.com/blog/upeo-labs-llama/?ref=ai-360.online) how Kenya-based Upeo Labs is using Llama 3 and Llama 3.1 to power Somo-GPT, a multi-subject teaching assistant for high school students, teachers and parents.

Somo-GPT covers subjects from biology and physics to menstrual and mental health through a conversational interface, and is intended to support Kenya’s nationally approved high school curriculum.

Founder and CEO Roy Murwa Khasiani said the product is scalable because every African country has a nationally approved high school curriculum that could benefit. He built much of the stack himself after funding issues interrupted his studies at Strathmore University.

Upeo Labs used prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation and data engineering to fine-tune the models, and said it drew on [Meta](https://www.ai-360.online/meta/)’s responsible AI guidelines.

Students, teachers and parents can access Somo-GPT on phones, tablets and laptops. Khasiani credited open-source models, including Llama, with making generative AI affordable enough to serve Kenyan schools.

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