BlueSky

Indigenous and scarce data 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 scarce data 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

Language revitalisation infrastructure that follows participatory design principles, is affordable and surveillance free.

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Structural foundation

Structural syntactic foundations, with architectures designed for morphological complexity and data sparsity.

3

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

Language revitalisation and human cognition

"The best part of comedy is figuring out the puzzle pieces of a joke and getting the self-regard from having accomplished a difficult thing. Whatever your chosen profession is, please don’t let AI rob you of the fun part of it." Ronny Chieng, Comedian

Language Revitalisation

Endangered languages have a different challenge to English or Mandarin - they are disappearing.

That does not mean they are immune to high resource language trends.

Illusion of knowledge

Cognitive Offloading is leading to a large scale cognitive crisis, as explained by the Dunning-Kruger effect, when AI output goes unquestioned.

Think outside the bots*

Long form generative output in Indigenous and low resource languages, will not be supported.

Putting Indigenous people before profit.

Fusing academia, technology and culture

Linguistics and culture

Research can be found here - https://github.com/bezokurepo/papers

Seamless integration

Leveraging Intel openVINO

Cloud | Device | USB

Participatory

Dialogue and collaboration 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 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.

Launch models

Flags are approximations and are illustrative - contact us to discuss any changes that avoid cultural mis-representation.

Languages roadmap

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

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 data scarce language speaker, an Indigenous owned media company, government agency or not-for-profit who want to unlock valuable language data, get in touch.

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