The Born programme
Applied model development, open adapters and model cards that explain the work behind a release.
Leemer LabsResearch that becomes infrastructure.
Open models, rigorous evaluation and practical AI infrastructure. A research lab built to turn experiments into things people can use. Leemer Labs is the European AI research lab of Leemer Group, based in Waterford, Ireland.
Visit leemerlabs.comA distinct point of view.
Leemer Labs is the group’s independent AI research and model development activity. The Born programme brings model adaptation, evaluation and documented releases together, alongside fine-tuning and inference work.
Researchers, developers and organisations adapting AI to a defined task.
Leemer Labs is the AI research lab of Leemer Group, based in Waterford, Ireland. It works on open model adaptation, evaluation and documented releases through the Born programme, including BornBench. Model access and private deployment use European infrastructure. Limits are published with the work.
From a question
to something useful.
Start with
A task with a measurable objective.
Work through
Prepare the data. Adapt a model. Evaluate against a held-out task.
Leave with
A documented model, with evidence and known limits.
What it does.
Evaluation
BornBench and held-out gates keep model claims connected to inspectable evidence.
Fine-tuning
Task definition, dataset preparation, model adaptation and documented evaluation.
Inference
OpenAI-compatible model access and private deployment pathways through European infrastructure.
Inside Leemer Labs.
Original product capture. Features and availability are maintained on the official product site.
Questions about the lab.
Is Leemer Labs a European AI lab?
- Yes. Leemer Labs is an AI research lab in Waterford, Ireland, which places it in Europe. The Born programme covers model adaptation, evaluation and documented releases. The Born2 API describes research-preview models served from Europe. “European” here describes place and infrastructure, not a ranking against other labs.
Does Leemer Labs work on Irish-language AI?
- Yes, as a research programme. Irish has less high-quality digital text than English, and a model can sound fluent while a speaker would reject the sentence. The group’s approach is licensed data, fluent-speaker evaluation and published limits. Planned Gaeilge models should not be read as shipped products until Leemer Labs says they are available.
Where is Leemer Labs based?
- Waterford, Ireland, with the rest of Leemer Group. The public contact for general and partnership enquiries is hello@leemerlabs.ie. Product sites for the lab, including Born, live at leemerlabs.com. This group page explains the lab in the context of the five products. It does not replace the lab’s own model cards.