Nov 26 (Reuters) - Orange will enlist OpenAI

and Meta to fine-tune AI Large Language Models (LLMs)

to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms

operator, it said on Tuesday.

The project is slated to start in the first half of 2025 and

will initially focus on incorporating regional languages spoken

in West Africa into OpenAI's "Whisper" and Meta's "Llama"

software, Orange said.