What you can hold us to.

You won't need an account, an API key, or a credit card to use anything we make. Code, weights, and reports are released under licenses that allow commercial use, changes, and redistribution.

This isn't a trial period. We won't lock the work away later, even if a business reason to do so comes up. Khmer-language tools shouldn't need anyone's permission to build on.

More than 16 million people speak Khmer, yet most AI tools barely understand it. Public training data is thin, test sets barely exist, and most systems treat Khmer as one more language added at the end.

The script itself breaks assumptions built into tools made for the Latin alphabet: consonants stack, vowels attach around them, and words run together without spaces. We start from how Khmer is actually written, and design each model around that.

Every model comes with a written report: how it was trained, what it was measured against, and the test data we used, so you can check the numbers yourself.

We publish the failures alongside the scores. Knowing where a model struggles is more useful to the next person than a headline number, and you shouldn't have to take our word for anything.

We keep models small enough to run on the hardware people in Cambodia actually have. An open model that needs a rented server isn't open in any way that matters, whatever the license says.

Netra Lab is independent. It's run by a single researcher, not a company, and isn't funded by anyone with a stake in the results. That leaves us free to put the work first.

We want a healthier ecosystem for Khmer-language AI, not a moat around our own models. If someone trains something better on top of this work, that's the point.