Nigeria’s Jupytec Innovation Labs secures 100 free places in AI course for Nigerian developers
The first 100 members of Jupytec’s free tech community start Cyberiad Labs’ AI course on Monday 2 November.
RALEIGH, N.C., and PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, 27 October 2026. Cyberiad Labs and Jupytec Innovation Labs today announced a partnership that gives Jupytec’s community free places in Cyberiad Labs’ classes. It starts with 100 places in the class that opens on Monday 2 November 2026, with more in future classes. The course, Introduction to AI and LLMs, is online, part-time and four weeks long.
The course is free for everyone. Jupytec’s places are guaranteed seats on top of the public ones, which are full for every class until the end of 2026. They go to the free community Jupytec runs, not to the company itself. This is the ninth education partnership Cyberiad Labs has announced.
Jupytec Innovation Labs is a technology company and research institute with offices in Abuja and Port Harcourt. It builds software for businesses and schools, including AdvoScholar, a platform that automates a school’s day-to-day operations from one place: fees and billing, attendance, student management and teachers’ dashboards. It hosts tech leadership seminars and helps startups turn their ideas into lasting businesses. Jupytec’s founder and CEO, Ozioma Agaecheta, has started three ventures. He has been a mentor on the Founder Institute’s startup programme in Abuja.
In a study of 47 countries by the University of Melbourne and KPMG, run between November 2024 and January 2025, people surveyed in Nigeria were the most willing to trust AI: 79%, compared with 46% across the whole study. Almost all Nigerians in the study, 97%, wanted to learn more about it. Trust needs checking everywhere: 72% of employees in Nigeria who use AI at work said they had relied on its output without evaluating its accuracy, compared with 66% across the study.
“I met Ozioma in Lagos, when he was a learner on the ALX software engineering programme I led, and we have stayed in touch ever since,” said Julien Barbier, co-founder of Cyberiad Labs. “Today he runs his own lab, building software for schools and businesses and helping founders build companies. When his community needed good material on AI, he came to us. I am proud to help him in his mission. Seeing a former learner teach his own community is the best result I could ask for.”
“Our mission is to make Africa a hub of producers of technology, not just consumers of it,” said Ozioma Agaecheta, founder and CEO of Jupytec Innovation Labs. “With AI, that starts with understanding how it works and where it fails. This course teaches exactly that, in plain words, and every learner runs a model on their own device on day one. Our members will put AI to work on real tasks and question its answers before they rely on them.”
Cyberiad Labs’ Introduction to AI and LLMs (large language models) teaches what AI is, how it works and where it fails. A learner only needs a phone or a computer to join. The course is in English, written in plain words, and every chapter has a player that reads it out loud. In the first week, learners see that the system answering so confidently is a program predicting text, one small piece at a time, and that it can be wrong. Throughout the course, they practise checking its answers, asking for its sources and verifying them, and deciding for themselves when to rely on it. The course’s first class opened on 14 September with 1,005 learners from 51 countries, 95% of them in Africa. Nigerians are its largest group, 463 of the 1,005, and learners rate its sessions 4.8 out of 5 on average.
“The first time you run an AI model on your own laptop, with the internet switched off, it stops being magic,” said Youssef Charif Hamidi, co-founder of Cyberiad Labs. “You see a program you can test, question and build on. Jupytec’s developers will get there on their first day with us, and I am sure one of them will build something we have not imagined yet.”
Jupytec’s members register through a link Jupytec gives them. Non-profits and foundations that don’t charge their learners can ask for free places of their own at julien@cyberiadlabs.com.
About Cyberiad Labs
Cyberiad Labs teaches people to work with AI without handing it their thinking. Those skills help people keep a job or find one, and help organisations keep up as AI changes their work. It teaches learners directly, and works with schools, universities, companies, NGOs and governments.
Julien Barbier co-founded Holberton School, a software engineering school with no teachers, no lectures and no upfront tuition. It grew from one campus in San Francisco to 32 worldwide before it was acquired. He then led product and growth at ALX across its software engineering and applied AI programmes, where the number of learners went from a few thousand to more than 1.6 million. Before Holberton, he was the first head of marketing, growth and community at Docker.
Youssef Charif Hamidi is a full-stack engineer. He learned to code on Julien’s 12-month ALX software engineering programme. He finished it on an Android tablet, because cerebral palsy limits him to about two words a minute on a computer keyboard. Previously, he built MathVellum, a maths editor for people who cannot hold a pen.
Home: https://www.cyberiadlabs.com
About Jupytec Innovation Labs
Jupytec Innovation Labs is a technology organization and research institute dedicated to building world-class software and investing in transformative digital solutions. The lab specializes in engineering scalable enterprise applications and driving technological advancement across Africa. A key hallmark of their portfolio is AdvoScholar, an advanced school automation platform designed to modernize the African educational sector through curiosity-led learning and operational automation. Operating out of Abuja, Jupytec actively cultivates the ecosystem by hosting tech leadership seminars and helping startups turn ambitious digital concepts into sustainable enterprises. https://jupytec.com
Contact information
Julien Barbier, co-founder, Cyberiad Labs, julien@cyberiadlabs.com
Ozioma Agaecheta, founder and CEO, Jupytec Innovation Labs, jupytec@gmail.com
Sources
- The University of Melbourne and KPMG, “Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence: A global study 2025”, 2025.
- The University of Melbourne and KPMG, “Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence: A global study 2025. Nigeria insights”, 2025.