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Language Lab

Nonprofit research lab

Language Lab builds practical AI tools for endangered and low-resource languages, starting with Tuvaluan. We share product launches, research updates, field deployment lessons, and the engineering work required to make real language technology available where it usually does not.

The cover of The Gifts of Pai and Vau, a bilingual children's book used for held-out evaluation.
Technical deep dive17 min read

How We Built a 3B Model That Beats GPT-5.4 at Tuvaluan — And What It Can't Do Yet

A technical deep dive into two-stage training, synthetic data bootstrapping, and why the hardest eval is a children's book.

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