AI, the "sovereignist" derby has already begun in Italy: similarities and differences between iGenius and Almawave. Almawave CEO at Corriere della sera

“An exciting match and a very important technological challenge,” is how Corriere della Sera in an article by Alessia Cruciani defines the two ongoing projects for artificial intelligence Made in Italy. Projects – one is Velvet by Almawave – that will have to guarantee the technological “sovereignty” that France has already successfully obtained thanks to Mistral, where Germany shines for DeepL, and that can give satisfaction and greater opportunities to our country.

Valeria Sandei, CEO Almawave spoke of Velvet as a multimodal foundational LLM with a special focus on Italian but will be characterized by its ability to handle text, audio and images in multi-language mode.