Case studies

What people
built on it.

Compute is only interesting for what comes out of it. These are the projects that have run on Navon hardware, written up with the scores, the costs and the parts that are still weak.

OCT 2026
Research · Language technology
USIU-Africa

Teaching a translation model to speak Ekegusii

More than two million Kenyans speak Ekegusii, and none of the major translation systems handle it. A team at USIU-Africa built one that does, and put it to work on real government announcements. It runs on Navon compute.

0.83 → 19.91 BLEU · English to Ekegusii, scripture
2M+Ekegusii speakers it serves
62,669Sentence pairs the team built
16Research teams on the programme
3Languages the model works between
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The standard

What has to be true
before we publish one.

Most vendor case studies are an advert with a logo on it. These rules are what stop ours becoming that, and they are the reason there are few of them.

01

A named institution, or nothing

No anonymised “a leading university”. If the customer will not be named, the study does not run. That is also why every one of these is signed off in writing before it goes up.

02

Their numbers, not our adjectives

Scores, costs, hardware and dates, as measured. Where a figure came from a third party we say which one. Where it is ours, we say that too.

03

The result that did not work, included

Every real project has a part that failed or is still weak. It stays in. A study that only reports wins tells you nothing about what to expect from yours.

04

Enough method to be repeated

The model, the corpus, the hyperparameters, the machine. A reader at another university should be able to start from what is on the page.

Your project

Running something
worth writing up?

We put serious compute in the hands of Kenyan research teams and get out of the way. If you are at a university with work that is held up by hardware, tell us what you are trying to train. You keep the model, the corpus and the credit.