01 / RESEARCH

What we are
here to solve.

Our work sits where model efficiency, local relevance and open science meet.

01

Efficient language models

Researching compact language models that deliver useful intelligence with radically lower compute, memory and deployment costs.

We are interested in the full efficiency stack: model architecture, data quality, training strategy, inference, compression and deployment on constrained hardware.

  • Small language models
  • Efficiency
  • Edge AI

02

Locally grounded intelligence

Building methods and datasets that help AI understand the languages, knowledge and contexts that global systems routinely overlook.

Our goal is not to place a regional wrapper around general models. It is to investigate how local knowledge and language can shape data, evaluation and system design from the beginning.

  • African languages
  • Data
  • Evaluation

03

Open and responsible systems

Making models easier to inspect, adapt and trust through open research, transparent evaluation and practical safety work.

We want openness to be useful, not performative. That means clear methods, reproducible evaluation and honest reporting of both capability and limitation.

  • Open source
  • Safety
  • Governance

FLAGSHIP PROGRAMME

In development

Altis Small Language Model Programme

Building a family of compact, capable language models designed for private, affordable and locally adaptable intelligence.

FocusEfficient foundation models
ApproachResearch and build from first principles
CommitmentOpen research and reproducible evaluation
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BUILD WITH US

The next chapter of AI
needs more authors.

Researchers, engineers, institutions and thoughtful funders: if this mission speaks to you, we would like to hear from you.

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