BlueSky
Indigenous and low resource languages infrastructure
Incorporated in Canada
Digital representation
Digital representation is missing for billions of speakers - see the World Bank report on the "the digital divide" button
If a LLM includes an Indigenous or Low Resource language, the architecture penalises complex languages
Infringement of cultural property and privacy is a feature, not a bug, of LLMs
LLMs are highly polluting, with mega-scale data centres crowding out power for homes and schools

Introducing bezoku
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Mission
Indigenous and low resource languages infrastructure that is affordable and surveillance free
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Structural foundation
Structural syntactic foundations, with architectures designed to work with morphological complexity and data sparsity
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Better for the planet
Models that are massively less polluting, with zero water usage
Core principles
Structural
Typologically informed model architecture
Small
Small model payloads that run on older PCs and cell phones
Low technical debt
bezoku builds every component, resulting in auditability and low tech debt
Symbolic → Semantic
Symbolic instructions that transfer to semantic solutions
Fusing academia, technology and culture
Linguistic led innovation
Research can be found here - https://github.com/bezokurepo/papers
Seamless integration
Leveraging Intel openVINO
Cloud | Device | USB
Collaborative
Authentic cultural representation without exploitation or extraction
Community inspired and led

Source: Eugenia Urrere, Indigenius
Bezoku collaborates with Indigenous communities, ideating together
Smaller models are better
"The report advocates for a pivot away from resource-heavy AI models in favour of more compact models."

www.unesco.org

AI Large Language Models: new report shows small changes can reduce

New research published by UNESCO and UCL, shows that small changes to how Large Language Models are built and used can dramatically reduce energy consumption without compromising performance. The

← Bezoku founder Ian Gilmour speaking at LT4ALL at UNESCO in February 2025



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Bezoku delivers secure, affordable SMLs with small energy footprints

About Bezoku    AI start-up company Bezoku (https://bezoku.ai/) from South Florida, USA, works with communities in the design of generative AI applications. The Bezoku developer team consists of customer centric linguists, mathematicians, machine learning and software engineers who deliver commercia...

"Bezoku AI wowed the community"
Our hackathon in May 2025 was a full foundation model build using LSTM architecture and CoNLL-U. It was awesome.
Read more on Intel's AI blog

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What Startups Built This Time at Intel® Liftoff Days

Intel® Liftoff Days returned from May 12–16 for our second big dev sprint of the year, bringing together another incredible group of early-stage AI startups. This is the highlight of each quarter in the program: five days to build, refine, test, and demo, all with full access to Intel® Tiber™ AI Clo...

Models powered by DENVR
Running on immersion cooled GPUs supplied by our compute partner DENVR in Canada
Bezoku models are state of the art without costing the earth due to best in class power usage efficiency, cooled without water
Bezoku language models
Flags are approximations and are only illustrative - contact to discuss any changes to avoid cultural mis-representation.

Languages roadmap - add yours by contacting us
Contact us if you would like to participate or consult on our roadmap.
* Punjabi has two main scripts: Gurmukhi & Shahmukhi
What Crunchbase says about bezoku
We priortise Indigenous funders over western capital providers.
By aligning ownership with our customer base, we aim for more than just the next quarter.

Crunchbase

bezoku - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding

Language empowerment technology from Bezoku. Designed for low resource and indigenous communities. Member of the Intel Liftoff program.

Let's talk
Whether you are a linguistics researcher, Indigenous or low resource language speaker, an Indigenous owned media company, government agency or not-for-profit who want to unlock valuable language data (phonic and text), get in touch.

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