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Open initiative · Project Bhasa

AI for the Nepali language.

Open datasets, models, and tools for 17 million speakers. Built in the open under CC BY 4.0 and Apache 2.0. Project Bhasa is Suswo's commitment to low-resource language AI.

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Roadmap

Three phases. Long game.

Phase 1 — Now Active

Open Contributor

Open community. Datasets and models published freely on Hugging Face and GitHub under CC BY 4.0 and Apache 2.0.

  • ✓Project scaffolding
  • ✓First dataset pipeline
  • ○Public dataset release
  • ○First model checkpoint
Phase 2 — Next Future

Open Core

Free base models with a hosted API. Developers call the API for free at limited rate — pay for production scale.

Phase 3 — Future Future

Commercial Products

Nepali speech-to-text, translation API, writing assistant, and government / NGO contracts.

Open datasets

Open datasets.

Datasets publishing soon.

Phase 1 is underway. The first dataset will appear here and on Hugging Face when it passes our quality review.

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Open models

Models we've trained.

Models publishing soon.

We train on the published datasets. The first checkpoint will release alongside or shortly after the first dataset.

Get involved

How to contribute

Native speakers

Review and validate data — no ML experience needed. If you speak Nepali, you can help.
Contributor guide

Engineers

Open PRs — dataset pipelines, evaluation scripts, and NLP tooling. We use Python and Hugging Face Transformers.
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Linguists

Help curate and annotate data correctly. Linguistic expertise ensures our datasets are actually useful.
Get involved

Help us build AI in Nepali.

Every dataset row, every commit, every share helps build the future of Nepali AI. Open source, open data, open research.

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