About
Zirak AI is a next-generation research and engineering startup dedicated to bringing artificial intelligence to low-resource languages and dialects. Founded by specialists in natural language processing and computer vision, we build end-to-end systems so communities across South Asia and the Middle East can communicate, learn, and invent in their mother tongues.
The company
Publicly known as Zirak AI, the company is based in Peshawar, Pakistan, and was founded in 2024. The work spans optical character recognition, speech, translation, and open language resources — starting with Pashto and extending to Dari, Urdu, Persian, and Arabic.
Vision
We want machines that can read, write, listen, speak, and understand local languages, so speakers of underserved tongues can take part in the digital age. Linguistic diversity stays intact. Access to information, education, and economic life opens up.
Values
Smaller language communities deserve the same class of AI support as global languages. Every language matters.
We partner with universities, NGOs, and local experts, source data ethically, and co-create tools that match real needs.
Algorithms are benchmarked and peer-reviewed. The papers are public. The claims are measured.
Open-source components and community practice build local expertise, so the tools outlast any single project.
Founder and CEO
PhD in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and cybersecurity. The research program behind Zirak AI includes Pashto BERT, PsOCR, speech and text benchmarks, and work on trustworthy language models.
