ColIA

An open-source AI lab and community from Colombia.

We learn by building, and show that Latin America creates too.

Join the communitySee our work on GitHub

What we make

  • Sibundoy-Translate-1.7B

    Available

    Our first model. It translates English into Spanish on your own computer, and keeps HTML and Markdown intact.

  • An app

    In development

    To use AI models on your own computer, with settings measured on consumer hardware.

We'll introduce the app here and on the blog when it's ready. Be the first to know on Discord.

How we work

  1. Open. Code, models and recipes are published under open licenses.
  2. Measured. Every claim comes with numbers, measured on consumer hardware: from a laptop without a graphics card to a workstation with several.
  3. Bilingual. Everything ships in English and Spanish. The Spanish is native, not a translation.
  4. Local. What we make runs on your computer, without depending on a cloud.
  5. Community. Anyone who wants to learn, explore or contribute is welcome, whatever they know.
  6. Places. Our models are named after places in Colombia that deserve to be better known: beautiful, diverse and full of talent.

Join us

You don't need to be an expert. ColIA is starting with one person learning in the open. If you want to learn, find people to build with, or make small things that help, there's room for you.

Contact

Write to [email protected]. We read every message.