Building the Foundations of Somali AI.
Goobo Labs is an open research lab dedicated to advancing Artificial Intelligence for the Somali language.
We build open datasets, language technologies, developer tools, and educational resources that make Somali AI more accessible for researchers, developers, and the wider community.
Our work is open by default, community-driven, and designed to accelerate research in low-resource languages.
Open research. Open datasets. Open Somali AI.
We work on the core infrastructure needed to build modern AI for Somali, including:
- 🤖 Large Language Models (LLMs)
- 📚 Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- 🎙️ Speech Technology (STT & TTS)
- 📖 Open Datasets & Corpora
- 🧠 AI Research
- 🛠️ Language Tools
- 🎓 Education & Training
Our GitHub organization hosts projects including:
- SomNLP-Corpus — Large-scale Somali text corpus
- SomLTK — Somali Language Toolkit
- Somali Language Standard — Language standards and specifications
- Soplang — Programming language for Somali speakers
Alongside educational repositories, research experiments, and tools that support the Somali AI ecosystem.
We believe every language deserves modern AI.
Our mission is to build the open infrastructure that enables researchers, developers, educators, and startups to create the next generation of Somali AI systems.
- Open Research
- Open Source
- Community First
- High-Quality Data
- Reproducible Research
- Long-Term Impact
We welcome contributions from researchers, engineers, linguists, students, and open-source contributors around the world.
Whether you're improving datasets, building language tools, or advancing Somali NLP research, we'd love to collaborate.
📍 Mogadishu, Somalia