He answers “professional” questions and pollutes less than competitors, but if you want to try the Italian IA (for now reserved for companies) you must put yourself on the waiting list.
His name is inspired by the famous Vitruvian man of Leonardo da Vinci, a global symbol of genius and Italianness, and it is precisely these two characteristics that emerge in the first, and so far unique, artificial intelligence born in Italy. Here are ten points that make Vitruvian-1 a unique model in the world:
As the Italian Ia was born
ASC27 created it, founded during the first Lockdown of Covid-19 Pandemia by the engineer Nicola Grandis. Already al World Artificial Intelligence Conference (Waic) of Shanghai in 2023, this young woman start-up was awarded for a project relating to Alzheimer’s, diagnosed with aaccuracy of 90% thanks to techniques of Machine Learning: a first important confirmation that the way undertaken was right.
“Talk how to eat”
It is a model of IA designed by a team entirely composed of young people from the universities of the Belpaese, who trained it with a 70% dataset in our languageof which the IA is able to grasp the grammatical nuances. According to designers, the choice to focus only on our idiom is a big advantage because it avoids the semantic pitfalls of the translation.
Small but powerful
Vitruvian-1 has a dimension of “just” 14 billion parameters, very few if compared with those of Gemini (1500 billion), Chatgpt (1076) and Deepseek (671), and it was instructed in only three months. Nonetheless, he can arrive with the reasoning where other II cannot be, resulting among the most skilled in solving mathematical problems With a score of 94.00, touching the levels of Openai and Deepseek.
More reliable
From a technical point of view, Vitruvian-1 uses architecture Transformer of the latest generation. The training process provided for a rigorous data selectionensuring the inclusion of reliable sources and the elimination of low value content. This approach is able to ensure users greater quality in answerswhich are more consistent and contextualized compared to those of the most known IAs.
It is not a “chatbot”
If you are imagining something similar to Chatgpt or Gemini, however, you are out of the way: to ask them “normal” questions for the sole purpose of entertainment is not possible. On the contrary, it is designed to answer “professional” questionswith the aim of supporting users in the workplace. Vitruvian-1, in fact, can solve complex problems or suggest solutions based on the parameters that are provided to it.
Reserved for companies
Keeping a large -scale operating a model of IA requires huge investments which, in this initial phase of the project, ASC27 is not yet able to support. For this reason, the product is currently accessible, for a feeonly on the basis of a waiting list and is reserved for sectors of sectors such as finance, health and logisticsin which precision in calculations and reliability are essential aspects.
Technical language
The ability to draw at will by the Italian vocabulary makes Vitruvian-1 a useful tool for all those professionals used to using a specific technical language, from lawyers to notaries, from doctors to the military. The IA is in fact optimized to meet specific needs of key sectors, while respecting in a safe and accurate way local and European regulations (especially the GDPR and ACT).
More ecological
With the same task, Vitruvian-1 needs less power to work compared to large models. The merit is of two advanced techniques known as pruning And quantization. In the first case, the connections that do not contribute significantly to the final results are eliminated from the neural network, in the second, the numerical precision of the data is reduced. In this way, calculations are reduced and, therefore, energy consumption.
10 and honors in scientific subjects
The main main fields of use of Vitruvian-1 are physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, medicine, economics, law And, more generally, any other subjects that requires reasoning. Mainly, the model can operate both with chat mode and with the RAG mode (Retrieval-augmented generation). In the second case, users can submit documents and obtain answers based on the information contained in them.
What will do when you grow up?
To put it in the words of the founder Nicola Grandis: «Vitruvian-1 is nothing more than the beginning of a new chapter “. Soon new versions of different sizes and abilities will soon be released, this is because in the field of the AI you are not yet struggling with perfect technology, devoid of errors and able to solve every problem, but only “With the best approximation available (…) of human intelligence”.
