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

  • ColIA-Local

    Coming soon

    An app built on llama.cpp that runs AI models on your computer with recipes: models with settings measured on real hardware. One click measures your computer and shares the results, so anyone can help improve the recipes.

  • Sibundoy-Translate-1.7B

    Coming soon

    A model that translates English into Spanish on your own computer, so your texts never leave it. Trained on sentence pairs from open sources.

    Named in honor of the Sibundoy Valley, in Putumayo, Colombia.

How we work

  1. Open. Code, models and recipes are published under open licenses.
  2. Measured. Every claim comes with numbers, measured on real hardware, from a modest laptop to a powerful workstation.
  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 started as 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.