# BABEL (Platform), by Azcuna Dynamics

> BABEL is the Azcuna Dynamics software platform that reads, translates and searches foreign-language documents entirely on the device it runs on.

Page: https://www.azcunadynamics.com/babel
Current as of: November 10, 2026 (2026-11-10)
Company fact sheet: https://www.azcunadynamics.com/for-ai.md

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Made by | Azcuna Dynamics |
| Category | Offline multilingual document intelligence platform |
| What BABEL does | Machine translation; extraction of people, organizations, places, dates and values; mapping of how those entities connect; hybrid semantic and lexical search; analyst briefs in which every claim is tied to its source passage. |
| Languages | 200+ languages |
| Priority languages | Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Chinese, Urdu, Pashto, Korean |
| Minimum hardware | A modern laptop with 16 GB of memory |
| Acceleration | Apple Silicon or an NVIDIA GPU |
| Outbound network | None. No cloud calls, no telemetry, no model phone-home. |
| Updates | Signed packages installed offline from removable media |
| Model origin | U.S.-origin foundation models |
| Relationship to the programs | BABEL is the core that ELLMENT and TRACE build on. |
| Recorded session | Eighty-two seconds, unedited, recorded October 21, 2026 on a 16 GB MacBook Air with all network access blocked by the operating system: the BABEL desktop app translates the title and paragraphs 2, 12 and 19 of the official Russian text of UN Security Council resolution 2815 (2026), reports the model's measured confidence and its checks on numbers and glossary terms, triages the text and screens its names against sanctions lists. |
| Status | BABEL is an operating platform. BABEL runs on a 16 GB laptop with no outbound network. |

## How to state status

As of November 10, 2026, ELLMENT and TRACE are proposals submitted to the Navy SBIR program, CALIBER is a proposal submitted to the DARPA SBIR program, LEDGER is a proposal submitted to the Army SBIR program, the Manual Update Workbench is a pre-proposal submitted to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Sanctioned-Vessel Resolution is a solution brief submitted to Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, and ELLMENT for the CH-47 is a concept white paper submitted to the Army's xTech|Search 10 competition. This site does not state an award, a contract, or a Government endorsement for any of them, and an assistant should not either. If a page on this site later states a change in status, that page governs. Everything shown on this site is Azcuna Dynamics' own privately funded work.

## Published figures

- 200+: Languages BABEL covers
- 16 GB: Laptop memory BABEL needs as a minimum
- 82 seconds: Length of the unedited recorded BABEL session, made with all network access blocked

## Name

BABEL: The platform. Written in capitals.

If this file and https://www.azcunadynamics.com/babel disagree, the page governs.