Question 1

What is HelaAI?

Accepted Answer

HelaAI is Sri Lanka's frontier AI research lab that engineers foundational LLMs, sovereign voice intelligence, and multimodal NLP systems for the Sinhala language. We develop SinhalaLM, SinhalaOCR, and the Sinhala Support OS platform.

Question 2

What is SinhalaLM?

Accepted Answer

SinhalaLM is a foundational large language model for the Sinhala language with a 64,000-token Sinhala-native tokenizer trained on curated Sri Lankan corpora.

Question 3

What is SinhalaOCR?

Accepted Answer

SinhalaOCR is a Vision Transformer based OCR that digitizes Sinhala text from palm-leaf manuscripts and modern documents.

Question 4

Where is HelaAI based?

Accepted Answer

HelaAI is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. We are a university-affiliated AI research lab focused on sovereign AI for the Sinhala language.

Question 5

Is HelaAI open source?

Accepted Answer

HelaAI publishes open research, datasets, and benchmarks for the Sinhala NLP community globally.