Language and Culture
Models that understand Nepali language, regional speech, scripts, and cultural context.
AI researchfrom the Himalayas.Built for Nepal. For the world.
We build speech models, language systems, and agents for Nepal, released openly with the evidence to back them up.
Building the intelligence layer
for Nepal's digital future.
Frontier Research
Long-horizon work on language, agents, and efficient models, not quick demos.
Nepali First
Systems designed around how Nepali is actually spoken, written, and used.
Open and Responsible
Open weights, open benchmarks, and honest limitations with every release.
why we exist
at this stage, almost everyone agrees that ai is one of the biggest technological revolutions of our time, potentially even bigger than the internet. it is becoming something as fundamental as electricity.
most of the major innovation in ai is currently coming from western labs, where english is the primary language. as nepali people, we are often a minority in this revolution. nepal and the nepali people have had a meaningful impact on the history of the world, and we don't want that history, culture, and identity to be overlooked or forgotten in this new technological era.
we don't want to simply be observers.
introducing
naamche labs.we are a small group of people doing everything we can to contribute to this revolution and create a meaningful impact. despite having limited resources and facing various constraints, we are trying our best to build something meaningful for nepali people and contribute to the future of ai.
Kriti model family
Two open models.
One for every pipeline.
Kriti V1 is our wideband Nepali ASR model — rank #1 of 19 systems, 24.08% WER, 630 hours of training audio. Kriti Telephony adapts it for phone calls and call-centers, reaching new state of the art on the NepTel benchmark.
Kriti V1
Open weights, MITNepali speech recognition
Nepali, heard clearly.
Kriti is a 119M-parameter Nepali-only RNN-Transducer. It shares rank one on the development benchmark and records the lowest raw word error rate in the evaluated field of 19 systems.
- Live parameters
- 119M
- Primary WER
- 24.08%
- Benchmark rank
- #1
- Training audio
- 630 hrs
Research Areas
AI Agents
Autonomous systems that reason, use tools, recover from failure, and act reliably.
Education AI
Personalized learning systems designed around Nepali classrooms, teachers, and students.
Data and Infrastructure
Open datasets, evaluations, and scalable infrastructure for Nepal's AI ecosystem.
Serious AI research.
Built from Nepal.
We are a small team in Kathmandu. We are not hiring for set roles right now, but we always want to meet people who could shape the lab.