Cassava headquartered in the United Kingdom, was founded by African entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa.

Cassava Technologies (Cassava), a developing markets technology systems integrator, announced today that its Artificial Intelligence (AI) activities would now be managed as a separate business entity, Cassava AI.

Cassava AI's launch comes less than a week after Hardy Pemhiwa, president and group CEO, declared in Cape Town that the business is preparing for a major push into the AI field.

Cassava said in a statement that since the introduction of Generative AI, it has formed strategic alliances with industry titans such as Microsoft, Google, AWS, Anthropic, Oracle, Atlas AI, Cerebras, and Palo Alto Networks.

According to the company, these relationships allow it to provide greater system integration and support to enterprise customers in critical international markets.

Cassava also said that it already provides huge multinational and local companies with services such as data centres, cloud computing, cyber security, fiber connectivity, and renewable energy.

The organisation said it has already trained and deployed over 200 of its 5000 employees to "empower customers to adopt and use Generative AI services from the world's leading vendors."

Cassava, headquartered in the United Kingdom, was founded by African entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa and is backed by a number of notable worldwide institutional investors.

Pemhiwa said: “Cassava AI is headquartered in London and can already provide services in any of the 40-plus markets in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, where the Cassava Technologies group companies operate. Ahmed El Beheiry, a veteran technology and telecoms executive, will lead this business unit.”