Natnael Getenew is a 24-year-old developer from Addis Ababa, and his AI project just made the finals of the largest AI competition in history.
Ivy is an AI tutor that works completely offline for Ethiopian students with zero internet access. It runs on cheap phones and teaches in Amharic.
Out of 10,000+ projects submitted worldwide to AWS AIdeas 2025, Ivy made the top 50. Teams from Silicon Valley, London, Bangalore - backed by full engineering teams - and here he is, one dev from Addis.
The winner is decided by community support.
He needs 20 seconds from you:
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