About
Sovereign AI, built for Africa and the world
Tamebillab is a research and development lab specializing in private, open source, locally deployable artificial intelligence.
Our mission
We believe that artificial intelligence should not be the privilege of large enterprises or countries with developed cloud infrastructure. Our mission is to make AI accessible, private, and operational in constrained environments: low bandwidth, heterogeneous hardware, data sovereignty.
Strategic focus areas
What we work on
Private and sovereign artificial intelligence
We develop AI solutions that run entirely locally, with no data transmitted to external servers. Your data stays under your control, on your infrastructure.
Open source model platform
Our platform aggregates and optimizes the best open source models on the market. We select, test and package models adapted to real hardware constraints.
Model research and optimization
We conduct applied research on compression, quantization and optimization of language models to make them accessible on consumer hardware.
Embeddings and document intelligence
We build indexing and semantic search pipelines to enable organizations to query their documents in natural language, with no cloud dependency.
AI infrastructure
We design and deploy AI infrastructures adapted to African contexts — low bandwidth, energy constraints, heterogeneous hardware — to ensure AI that works everywhere.
Digital sovereignty research
We contribute to the discussion on sovereign AI policies and publish work on the technological independence of states and organizations from major cloud players.
Our values
Open Source
Everything we build is open, auditable and reusable.
Local Data
Zero transmission, zero cloud dependency.
Performance
Models optimized for real hardware, not ideal hardware.
Accessibility
AI for everyone, including where connectivity is limited.