Soon, even theItaly he could boast of owning his own artificial intelligence, ChatGpt made in Italy which will challenge the supremacy of the United States and China. The "Italian model“, developed by Genius and enhanced by the computational capacity of the Leonardo supercomputer (the sixth most powerful in the world), managed by cineca, aims to compete with giants like ChatGpt, the famous OpenAI AI, with an emphasis on privacy, an open source license and solutions to prevent the "hallucinations" often found in large language models (Llm).
Obviously, the use of the conditional is a must, since it is a technology still in the gestation phase e experimentation, but the foundations are more solid than you might think.
“Model Italy”: the future of AI with a tricolor touch
Uljan Sharka, the founder of iGenius, underlined the choice to use exclusively Italian-language datasets to train the "Italian Model". This represents a stark contrast to current models, trained primarily in English and subject to a cultural bias reflected in language biases. That's why everyone wants a "national" model, explains Sharka. There France is trying to make it happen with the Mistral startups, and the same happens in Germany, where the startup Aleph Alpha has received millionaire investments. The "Italian Model" aspires to the creation of a tricolor model that reflects the social and cultural fabric of our country.
The project is funded entirely by Cineca and iGenius, and although exact figures were not disclosed, Sharka confirmed that the cost is significant.
The Italian challenge to ChatGpt: what is Model Italy and why is it different from other AI
The choice to adopt one open source license, in particular the MIT license, reflects the goal of democratizing access to AI technologies. This will allow developers from all over the world to use Model Italy as a basis for building applications related to artificial intelligence or models that use Italian as their first language.
Further attention is paid to privacy, with the intention of making the application a tool that can be used by both public administration and industrial sectors with high security standards. Opening the template allows users to download it completely onto their devices, ensuring use even in offline mode without the entered data being sent to the template developers.
One of the challenges faced is certification of knowledge, with the use of knowledge graphs to fact-check the content of each response provided by the AI. This solution, already present in other applications developed by iGenius, makes the Italian ChatGpt reliable even for sectors that require high precision and reliability.
But when will it debut? Release is expected bysummer 2024. An innovation that could position Italy on the global map of artificial intelligence, a market that will reach several trillion by 2030 according to estimates.
