CognitiveLab Wins Meta's Prestigious Llama Impact Grant!
This non-dilutive funding recognizes Nayana's potential and accelerates our mission to build inclusive, multilingual AI serving 22 global languages including 10 Indic languages.
About Nayana & Our Mission
Breaking language barriers with unified, multilingual, multimodal AI.
The Challenge
The world is full of rich, complex documents and images that drive knowledge, business, and governance. But today’s AI often falls short, especially for non-English content. Most models are still English-centric, ignoring the linguistic diversity of our planet. Document understanding is usually split across fragile pipelines (OCR, layout analysis, extraction), making it inefficient and incomplete.
Our Solution: Nayana
We're changing that with Nayana (meaning "eyes" in Hindi), a unified, multilingual, and multimodal foundation model designed to understand documents in their native depth. Unlike conventional approaches, Nayana directly supports 22+ languages within a single, cohesive architecture. Nayana by CognitiveLab pushes the boundaries of universal AI, built on a powerful synthetic data engine and rooted in open-source values, prioritizing inclusivity for global languages.
What We Want to Accomplish
Democratize AI
Bring advanced document intelligence beyond English.
Empower Low-Resource Languages
Deliver SOTA performance for Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and more.
Drive Real-World Impact
Enable innovation in education, governance, healthcare, finance, and cultural preservation.
Simplify Deployment
Replace complex pipelines with a single, efficient model.
Key Features
Nayana redefines AI capabilities with its comprehensive approach to language understanding and generation
Multilingual
Supports 22 languages including all major Indic languages, making AI accessible to diverse linguistic communities
Multimodal
Integrates text and vision capabilities for comprehensive understanding across different data formats
State-of-the-Art
Nayana OCR has set new standards in OCR for 22 languages, outperforming traditional systems like Tesseract at page level
Text Processing
Advanced text generation, translation, and understanding capabilities across multiple languages
Audio Processing
Speech recognition and audio processing tailored for Indic languages and regional accents
Vision Capabilities
Image recognition and processing with cultural context awareness for Indian visual content
Nayana Ecosystem: Components of Unified Intelligence
A comprehensive suite designed for robust and scalable image/document intelligence.
Unified Foundation Models
A family of adaptable vision-language models forming the core intelligence. Integrates visual and textual understanding in one architecture, scalable for different needs.
Synthetic Data Engine
A cornerstone innovation generating millions of high-fidelity, annotated document images across 22 languages, overcoming data limitations.
NayanaBench
A rigorous evaluation suite benchmarking multimodal, multilingual performance across diverse tasks for continuous improvement.
Open-Source Commitment
Driving accessibility and collaboration by sharing research and tools with the global community.
Fueling Intelligence: Synthetic Data
Overcoming data scarcity with a novel generation pipeline.
Data is the lifeblood of AI. To power Nayana's multilingual and multitask capabilities, especially for low-resource languages, we engineered a novel synthetic data generation pipeline:
- Diverse Seed Corpus: Start with a wide array of public documents (scientific papers, reports, web pages).
- Hierarchical Extraction: State-of-the-art models dissect documents (layout, content, reading order, relationships).
- Layout-Preserving Multilingual Augmentation: Text is translated into 22 target languages and meticulously re-rendered onto the original layout, preserving visual style and structure.
- Multi-Task Annotation Generation: Automatically create training data for diverse tasks (VQA, Retrieval, Markdown Conversion).
This engine produces millions of diverse, high-quality, annotated training examples at scale, crucial for robust model development.
Building the Unified Mind: Architecture & Methodology
A single, powerful, and adaptable model architecture.
Nayana's architecture moves away from complex, multi-model pipelines towards a single, powerful, and adaptable approach:
- Unified Vision-Language Architecture: Integrates a potent vision encoder with a capable language decoder for holistic reasoning.
- Task-Adaptive Prompting: Performs diverse tasks (OCR, Layout, VQA) through natural language instructions, offering flexibility.
- Parameter-Efficient Adaptation (PEFT): Uses techniques like LoRA for efficient fine-tuning on specific languages or tasks.
- Scalability: Developed as a model family with varying sizes for different resource constraints.
Capabilities Unlocked
A wide range of document and image understanding within one framework.
Advanced Multilingual OCR (22 languages)
Deep Layout Understanding
Structured Information Extraction (Tables, Forms)
Specialized Content Recognition (Math)
Multimodal Reasoning (DocVQA)
Efficient Document Retrieval
Models & Dataset
Exciting updates are on the way!
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Real-World Use Cases
Transforming industries through advanced multilingual, multimodal AI capabilities
Digital Libraries & Archives
Digitize and make searchable vast collections of historical documents, manuscripts, and texts in regional languages, preserving cultural heritage and expanding accessibility.
Education
Enable personalized learning experiences in native languages, automatic translation of educational materials, and AI tutoring systems that understand regional context and examples.
Government Services
Power multilingual citizen services, document processing, and public information systems that serve diverse linguistic communities with equal efficiency.
Healthcare
Facilitate patient communication in regional languages, medical document digitization, and healthcare information systems accessible to all language speakers.
E-commerce & Retail
Enhance customer experience with multilingual product search, recommendations, and support across text and visual content in local languages.
Community & Social Media
Power content moderation, translation, and recommendation systems for social platforms serving multilingual communities across India.
Latest Updates
Stay tuned for exciting news and developments!
Coming Soon!
We are actively working on Nayana and will share updates here.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or would like to discuss potential collaborations, please don't hesitate to reach out. I'd love to hear from you!Questions, ideas, or collaborations? Reach out—I'm all ears!
