Synetecs, the company behind the Dhivehi AI assistant Thaana AI, has relaunched its corporate website to focus on AI infrastructure for under-served languages and cybersecurity ahead of Slush 2026 in Helsinki. It plans to launch Akema.ai later this month and its Warden platform fully in April 2027, with the Prosecutor General's Office deploying Warden under its PGO 2.0 programme.
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One of our biggest hurdles has been people judging us by where we come from before they see what we’ve built,
The Maldives is a small country, and Dhivehi is an extremely low-resource language, with a small digital footprint and very little accessible data. Building AI for it was hard, and that is exactly the experience we need to develop and scal…
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More than 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, but only a small number have enough online data to build reliable AI tools.
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Synetecs estimates that 3.4 billion people speak languages that are underrepresented in AI training data.
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It answers customers through website chat and by phone in more than 50 languages
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Synetecs says the individual plan costs more than 95 per cent less than its corporate pricing.
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Thaana AI, the company’s Dhivehi and English assistant, opened to individual subscribers in the Maldives in August 2026.
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