Filipina tech founder Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo turns language barrier into AI mission

Filipina tech founder Anna Mae Lamentillo turns language barrier into AI mission 🤖🇵🇭

Filipina tech leader Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo founded NightOwlAI after realizing that a chatbot could not understand her native Kinaray-a language — a moment she described as a warning about the risks of leaving minority languages behind in the AI era.

Through NightOwlAI, her team works on preserving and digitizing low-resource and indigenous languages across different communities.