AI for underserved domains
3MegaLabs is the applied AI research arm of 3Mega.ai. We build infrastructure where frontier AI meets frontier need — starting with Language at the Margins.
Mission
Our mission is singular: to ensure that AI models understand Bemba, Nyanja, Sesotho — and every Bantu language — with the same precision, depth, and fluency they bring to English. Not as an approximation. As an engineered guarantee.
Research Pillars
Language at the Margins
Bantu language AI infrastructure — morphological engines, tonal ground truth, speaker-validated corpora for 664 languages.
Low-Resource AI
Methodologies for building high-quality AI systems where data is scarce — deterministic generation, thesis-validation, calibration loops.
Industrial & Environmental
AI systems for industrial optimization and environmental monitoring — neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic.
Team
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
PhD Chemical Engineering with specialization in soft computing — neural networks, genetic algorithms, and fuzzy logic systems. Native speaker of Bemba, Nyanja, and Tonga.
Leads the Bemba Corpus Project — the first systematic effort to generate complete morphological and tonal training data for any Bantu language. Based in USA.
conti.cintu@bantunomics.comCo-Founder
Co-Founder
PhD Quantum Physics. Zambian/UK background. Speaks Bemba, English, and fluent German; currently learning Japanese and Chinese. Brings deep mathematical formalism and computational physics expertise to the tonal analysis pipeline.
Co-Founder
Academic Advisor
PhD Professor. Speaks Bemba. Provides academic rigor and institutional connections for research validation and linguistic peer review.