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boccaccioAI - 100% Italian LLM
A 100% Italian 700M LLM built entirely from scratch.
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A 100% Italian 700M LLM built entirely from scratch.
6 followers
boccaccioAI is a 100% Italian LLM with 700M parameters, built entirely from scratch by De Lauretis Tech. No pre-trained weights, no external wrappers, just a custom tokenizer, architecture, and weights trained on Italian text. Think of it as an elementary school child: it might hallucinate details, but its grammar, syntax, and flow are flawlessly Italian. A proof-of-concept proving that sovereign LLMs are possible at scale. Running on on-demand serverless GPUs. Try it now, using italian :D!
love seeing a sovereign italian model out there, the language quality sounds really promising. one thing that would help me as a user: a side-by-side compare button where i can paste the same prompt into boccaccioai and chatgpt to see how the italian phrasing differs. would make the "native fluency" angle way more tangible for non-technical folks like me checking it out.
Built from scratch with no pre-trained weights, that part genuinely impressed me when I tried it. The phrasing actually feels Italian rather than translated, even if the responses are a bit simple.
Tried asking it about a regional Tuscan recipe and the response was fully in proper Italian, even down to the little flourishes of phrasing. Pretty cool proof of concept, though it did make up an ingredient or two.
Throwing some quirky Italian prompts at it and the grammar really does feel native, not translated. Love that it hallucinates in proper Italian too, which is honestly charming for a 700M model.