Novastar joins Google Africa Applied AI Lab to back startups

The interesting part here is not the Google logo, it is the framing that African founders are building AI to solve fundamental problems for everyday people rather than chasing productivity hacks for knowledge workers. Give it a few cohorts and this could produce the most genuinely novel applied AI use cases of the year, precisely because the constraints are so different from a San Francisco office. Worth bookmarking for September when the first startups get named.