NepaliGPT is an independent Nepal-focused AI platform that describes itself as the country's first AI platform and a "sovereign AI" initiative. Rather than adapting a generic global assistant, the project centres on the Nepali language and Devanagari script, aiming to serve a national population of over 28 million people with models and tools that understand their language and context.
The core of the project is a family of openly released models. NepaliGPT-2.0 is an 8-billion-parameter language model optimised for Nepali with strong reasoning and instruction-following ability. It is joined by a Nepali text-embedding model for semantic search and clustering, and a Nepali tokenizer purpose-built for the Devanagari script supporting both word-level and sub-word segmentation. All of these are published on Hugging Face under the MIT license, so anyone can use, fine-tune, and deploy them.
Beyond the models, NepaliGPT is positioned around real-world national impact. The team highlights applications in healthcare (Nepali-language medical assistants and telemedicine support reaching remote districts), education (Nepali-language tutoring and automated grading), and governance (document processing and policy summaries running on infrastructure inside Nepal). The public platform is currently in early access, with visitors invited to join a waitlist.
