Roadmap
Where we are headed
Five phases from foundation to scale — every milestone we've hit and everything we're building next.
Phase 01
Foundation
2023 CompleteLab founded in Mogadishuorg
Initial Somali text collection (800K sentences)data
First talent program cohort (20 engineers)community
Research framework & open-source policyresearch
Phase 02
Data & Evaluation
2025 CompleteSomNLP-Corpus v1 (1.5M sentences)data
SomNLP-STT-Corpus (320 hours audio)data
Somali Wikipedia Corpus (~11K articles)data
Somali Names Dataset (92K names)data
SomBench v0.1 evaluation suite (preview)research
Phase 03
Models & Tools
2026 In progressGoobo tokenizer (subword, Somali-optimised) — previewmodels
whisper-som-small — ASR checkpoint (11.4% WER) — previewmodels
som-en-mt — translation model (BLEU 24.3) — previewmodels
SomNLP-Corpus v2 (887M+ tokens)data
Soplang v2.0.0 — Somali-syntax programming language compilerinfra
Goobo-base language modelmodels
Somali TTS voice (research preview)models
Phase 04
Infrastructure
2026 – 2027 PlannedPublic developer API for Somali modelsinfra
RAG system for Somali knowledge retrievalmodels
Online evaluation & model card platforminfra
SomBench v1.0 (expanded, 12 tasks)research
Community data-collection toolingcommunity
Phase 05
Scale & Expansion
2027+ Vision100M+ sentence open corpusdata
Full instruction-tuned Somali LLMmodels
Production-grade ASR (< 5% WER)models
Regional expansion: Afar, Oromo, Tigrinyadata
Open API serving 1M+ requests/monthinfra
Community
Build it with us
Goobo Labs is a community effort. Whoever you are, there's a way to contribute.
Contribute on GitHubResearchers
Use our datasets and benchmarks, co-author studies, and push low-resource NLP forward.
Developers
Build on open models and tokenizers, file issues, and ship Somali-language features.
Students
Join fellowships and bootcamps to learn ML and contribute to real research.
Contributors
Help collect, transcribe, and verify data — every contribution improves the models.
Build with us
Build Somali AI in the open
Use our datasets and models, contribute to the research, or partner with the lab. Everything we can open, we do.