https://zolailab.eldouma.devZol AI Lab runs, tests, trains and fine-tunes open-source AI models locally and builds products on top of them. Computer vision and generative AI.https://zolailab.eldouma.dev/notes/2026-11-07-zol-ai-lab/https://zolailab.eldouma.dev/notes/2026-11-07-zol-ai-lab/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +1100Zol AI Lab is now the home for our research and products. We run, test, train and fine-tune open-source AI models locally, then build products and services on top of them that solve real-world problems.https://zolailab.eldouma.dev/notes/2026-10-27-plate-verify/https://zolailab.eldouma.dev/notes/2026-10-27-plate-verify/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1100When a camera is unsure whether a character is a 1, an I or a T, the wrong person can be billed. Our verifier lists the likely spellings, looks each one up in the registration record, and compares the registered vehicle with what the camera actually sees: body type, make and badge, described by a local vision-language model that never sees the plate.https://zolailab.eldouma.dev/notes/2026-10-25-zolstudio/https://zolailab.eldouma.dev/notes/2026-10-25-zolstudio/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1100The first version of ZolStudio runs image, video and lip-sync models on our own GPU, behind one simple studio: pictures from words, video with sound, talking shots from a portrait and a voice, and one-click character swaps in existing clips.https://zolailab.eldouma.dev/notes/2026-10-13-zolvoice-live/https://zolailab.eldouma.dev/notes/2026-10-13-zolvoice-live/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1100ZolVoice, our Sudanese Arabic text-to-speech product, is live at zolvoice.com. It routes each script to the right voice model, fixes Sudanese pronunciation before speaking, and answers support emails with an AI agent that a person approves.