
mist-encoder-base-ng, a ModernBERT masked-LM encoder trained for Hausa, Yorùbá, Igbo, and Nigerian Pidgin, and naija-embed-base, the cross-lingual sentence-embedding model built on top of it for local-language search and RAG.


MIST EmbedModernBERT masked-LM encoder pretrained for Hausa, Yorùbá, Igbo, and Nigerian Pidgin. A foundation for Nigerian-language NLP.

MIST EmbedCross-lingual sentence-embedding model for Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo. It is the retrieval foundation for Nigerian-language search and RAG.
More of the stack, organised the same way.

Frontier-merged LLMs: from MIST-Mini-8B to MIST-1-140B, including reasoning-tuned Thinking variants.

Language identification: from 5 Nigerian languages to 25 languages worldwide.

Diacritic & tone restoration for Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and beyond.