Why we exist. What we are building.
The journey of LocaleNLP from a small research project to a leading provider of African and Arabic language infrastructure — built by linguists and engineers from the communities we serve.
Our journey
Founded in Marrakech
First Language Models
AfriLION Architecture Locked
ORAOX Platform Launch
API v1 — 20 Languages
50+ Languages. Edge OS.
Bridging the digital language divide.
At LocaleNLP, we are building the foundational language layer for AI in low-resource environments. Not a translation API. Not a chatbot platform. The infrastructure layer — corpus collection, tokenization, acoustic modeling, edge deployment — that every African and Arabic language application will eventually need.
Our mission is to empower builders, communities, and institutions with accessible AI tools that preserve linguistic diversity and drive genuine inclusion in the global digital economy.
Community-validated data
Every dataset is collected by native speakers, reviewed by linguistic experts, and released with full provenance documentation.
Open research culture
We publish weights, benchmarks, and methodology before shipping products. Language infrastructure cannot be a black box.
Infrastructure-level thinking
Not a translation API. The corpus collection, tokenization, acoustic modeling, and edge deployment layer that everything else needs first.
A world where language is never a barrier to technology.
We envision a future where every person can access and use AI in their native language — regardless of how widely that language is spoken. Not as a niche product feature, but as baseline infrastructure.
By 2030, we aim to support over 100 African and Arabic language variants with state-of-the-art models, making digital inclusion a structural reality — not a marketing claim.
The people who started it.
Alieu founded LocaleNLP in 2024 with a single conviction: African and Arabic languages deserve the same infrastructure investment as English. He leads product vision, fundraising, and partnerships, and is the architect of the ORAOX community data ecosystem.
Mouhamedou built the AfriLION training pipeline and the edge inference runtime that powers LocaleNLP models on ARM devices with zero cloud dependency. He leads all engineering, model research, and infrastructure.