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boccaccioAI - 100% Italian LLM
A 100% Italian 700M LLM built entirely from scratch.
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!
Hi Product Hunt!
I’m Lorenzo, founder of De Lauretis Tech, and today we’re incredibly excited to share boccaccioAI with you.
Most LLMs today are fine-tuned versions of English-centric models. We wanted to see if we could build a truly independent, sovereign Italian LLM completely from scratch, and we did.
What makes boccaccioAI unique:
- 100% Custom: Custom tokenizer, custom architecture, and custom weights trained from a random initialization purely on Italian data. No third-party pre-training.
- 700M Parameters: It's small, lightweight, and runs on serverless GPUs (which spin up on-demand; expect a ~20s cold start on your first prompt!).
- The "Elementary School" Phase: Since it's small, it will hallucinate facts (it's still learning about the world!), but pay attention to its flawless Italian grammar, natural syntax, and flow. The foundation is solid.
What’s next?
This 700M model is our proof of concept. We are already preparing the training pipeline for a 7B parameter model to bring true factual knowledge, reasoning, and depth to Italian AI.
We’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and questions. Give it a spin and let us know what you think of the generation quality! Obviously, you will have to write in Italian 😄
Gave it a quick spin in Italian and the phrasing genuinely feels native, not that translated vibe most small models have. Love seeing a sovereign build like this, even at 700M params the grammar really does hold up.
Tried asking it about a Tuscan recipe and the response genuinely sounded like something a nonna would say, grammar and all. Wild that this came out of a 700M model built from scratch.
the idea of actually training a small model from scratch on just italian is honestly pretty cool, love that the creators are open about where it stumbles
Built entirely from scratch is genuinely impressive, love seeing this kind of sovereign AI work. Threw a few Italian prompts at it and the phrasing feels natural even when it fumbles facts.
Hi Product Hunt community,
Thank you to everyone who is testing boccaccioAI, leaving comments, and supporting our launch right now.
The live feedback we are receiving is exactly what we are aiming for. As many of you are noticing, while a 700M parameter model inevitably hallucinates facts, the grammar, syntax, and phrasing are flawlessly native. This validates our core hypothesis: building an LLM completely from the ground up, with a custom native tokenizer and architecture, is the right path to avoid the "translated" feel of mainstream models.
Seeing this custom foundation hold up in real-time is our primary goal today. Your ongoing tests and active discussions are giving us great momentum as we prepare for our next major milestone: scaling the architecture and training pipeline to a 7 Billion parameter model. That is where we will bridge the gap between knowing how to speak and actually knowing about the world.
If you believe in the future of European sovereign AI, or want to explore technical synergies or investment opportunities with De Lauretis Tech, I would love to connect.
Please keep testing the model, exploring its limits, and sharing your feedback on the linguistic flow. Thank you for the continuous support!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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“A 100% Italian 700M LLM built entirely from scratch.”
boccaccioAI - 100% Italian LLM was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 18 comments, placing #158 on the daily leaderboard. 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!
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