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OPEN LEER FOUNDATION · SOUTH AFRICA
Pebble is in development
Free AI for learning.
Built in Africa. Open to everyone.
Pebble is Open Leer Foundation's free educational AI initiative — multilingual, human-centred and designed for the places where access matters most.
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Our mission
Ability is everywhere. Access is not.
We are building a public-interest home for free educational AI: designed in Africa, useful across languages and devices, and accountable to the people it is meant to serve.
Learn moreWhy we build
For learners. For communities. For futures.
Communities
Technology that accounts for language, devices, data cost and local responsibility.
Futures
Open, accountable work that others can inspect, improve and apply.
Our work
One pebble. A wider learning ecosystem.
Our work connects trustworthy knowledge, learning experiences, evaluation and local access. Every initiative has an explicit status so a roadmap is never mistaken for a finished product.
Grounded learning story
The Pebble work ecosystem
- 01Question
A learner or responsible adult starts with a defined learning need.
- 02Source
The system identifies relevant, approved educational knowledge.
- 03Retrieve
Only a small, useful context is selected for the task.
- 04Explain
Pebble prepares an explanation or draft and makes its limits visible.
- 05Review
A person checks the output and decides what happens next.
This is an intended response pattern for a system in development. Retrieval can improve relevance; it does not make AI infallible.
Our commitment
People first. AI where it helps.
Educational AI should strengthen people's capability, respect their judgement and make its own limits clear.
Free
Core learning support should be available without a learner-facing fee.
Grounded
Answers should use controlled, relevant knowledge and show their limits.
Safe
Safeguarding, privacy and human oversight belong in the design from the start.
Get involved
Build the public-interest layer with us.
The most useful contributions start with context: a learner, educator or community; a responsibility; a constraint; and a clear idea of who remains accountable.