Nayana is a multi-modal, multi-lingual, multi-task foundation model from CognitiveLab, designed to process content across various Indian languages and vision modalities.
Works in these languages, in both native script and Roman typing.
An honest look at what it does well and where it struggles.
Who builds and maintains Nayana.
CognitiveLab is a Bengaluru-based, open-source-first AI research lab founded by Aditya Kolavi. It is best known for Ambari, one of the first bilingual Kannada-English language models (built on Llama-2), and for open tools like OmniParse and the multilingual OCR project Nayana — the latter winning a 2024 Meta Llama Impact Grant, announced in April 2025.