// AI MODELS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

AI models from Italy

63 generative AI models built by labs and companies based in Italy — LLMs, image, video and audio. A model's country is the country of the organization that created it.

63 models
Sapienza NLP

ChatMinerva

Sapienza NLP

Jun 2026 7.4B
Multimodal Open Weights
DO

Domyn Small

Domyn

May 2026 10B
Language Open Weights
FA

FastwebMIIA 7B (2026)

Fastweb

Mar 2026 7B
Language Open Weights
ML

nesso 0.4B Agentic

mii-llm

Mar 2026 400M
Language Open Weights
ML

nesso 0.4B Instruct

mii-llm

Mar 2026 400M
Language Open Weights
ML

nesso 4B

mii-llm

Mar 2026 4B
Language Open Weights
Sapienza NLP

Implicit Inversion

Sapienza NLP

Jan 2026
Image Generation Open Source
TR

Lara Think

Translated

Nov 2025
Language Proprietary
AL

Velvet 25B

Almawave

Oct 2025 25B
Language Open Weights
AL

Velvet Speech 2B

Almawave

Oct 2025 2B
Speech Open Weights
Sapienza NLP

FoleyGRAM

Sapienza NLP

Oct 2025
Audio Open Source
FB

Qwen3-GNR-it 14B

Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Sep 2025 14B
Language Open Weights
UO

ANITA-NEXT 20B

University of Bari

Sep 2025 20B
Language Open Weights
DE

Sibilia-TTS

DeepMount00

Aug 2025 2B
Speech Open Weights
UO

ANITA-NEXT 24B Vision

University of Bari

Jul 2025 24B
Multimodal Open Weights
TR

Lara V2

Translated

Jun 2025
Language Proprietary
DO

Domyn Large

Domyn

Jun 2025 263B
Language Proprietary
PS

EVE-Instruct 24B

Pi School

Jun 2025 24B
Language Open Source
Sapienza NLP

STAGE

Sapienza NLP

Jun 2025
Audio Open Source
FB

FAMA Medium

Fondazione Bruno Kessler

May 2025 878M
Speech Open Source
FA

FastwebMIIA 7B

Fastweb

May 2025 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
AS

Vitruvian-1

ASC27

Feb 2025 14B
Language Proprietary
AL

Velvet 2B

Almawave

Feb 2025 2B
Language Open Source
EI

EngGPT2 16B-A3B

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica

Feb 2025 16B
Language Open Weights
AL

Velvet 14B

Almawave

Jan 2025 14B
Language Open Source
IG

Colosseum 355B

iGenius

Jan 2025 355B
Language Proprietary
VO

Voiseed Xpressive

Voiseed

Jan 2025
Speech Proprietary
ML

Zagreus 0.4B

mii-llm

Jan 2025 400M
Language Open Weights
AN

Gemma 2 9B Neogenesis ITA

anakin87

Dec 2024 9B
Language Open Weights
TR

Lara V1

Translated

Nov 2024
Language Proprietary
Sapienza NLP

Minerva 7B

Sapienza NLP

Nov 2024 7.4B
Language Open Source
UO

Art2Mus

University of Bari

Oct 2024
Audio Open Source
AN

Phi-3.5-mini ITA

anakin87

Oct 2024 3.8B
Language Open Weights
UO

DDGemb

University of Bologna

Sep 2024
Language Proprietary
AI

Alfie

AImageLab

Sep 2024
Image Generation Open Source
AI

LLaVA-MORE 8B

AImageLab

Sep 2024 8B
Multimodal Open Weights
UO

P-LLama3

University of Siena

Aug 2024 8B
Language Open (Restricted)
UO

P-Llama2

University of Siena

Aug 2024 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
UO

P-Mistral

University of Siena

Aug 2024 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
UO

P-gemma

University of Siena

Aug 2024 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
IG

Modello Italia 9B

iGenius

Jul 2024 9B
Language Open Weights
UO

Igea 3B

University of Pavia

Jul 2024 3B
Language Open Weights
DE

Qwen2 1.5B ITA

DeepMount00

Jul 2024 1.5B
Language Open Weights
TR

Matedub

Translated

Jun 2024
Speech Proprietary
RR

DanteLLM 7B

RSTLess Research

May 2024 7B
Language Open Weights
UO

LLaMAntino-3 ANITA 8B

University of Bari

May 2024 8B
Language Open Weights
DE

Llama-3 8B ITA

DeepMount00

May 2024 8B
Language Open Weights
Sapienza NLP

Minerva 1B

Sapienza NLP

Apr 2024 1B
Language Open Source
Sapienza NLP

Minerva 3B

Sapienza NLP

Apr 2024 3B
Language Open Source
MO

Volare

Moxoff

Apr 2024 7B
Language Open Weights
MO

Azzurro

Moxoff

Mar 2024 7B
Language Open Weights
ML

Maestrale Chat v0.4

mii-llm

Mar 2024 7B
Language Open Weights
DE

Mistral ITA 7B

DeepMount00

Mar 2024 7B
Language Open Weights
ML

Zefiro

mii-llm

Feb 2024 7B
Language Open Weights
UO

LLaMAntino-2

University of Bari

Dec 2023 13B
Language Open Weights
UO

Cerbero 7B

University of Pisa

Sep 2023 7B
Language Open Source
AI

LaDI-VTON

AImageLab

Aug 2023
Image Generation Open Source
RA

Hermes 7B ITA

RAI

Jul 2023 7B
Language Open Weights
Sapienza NLP

Fauno

Sapienza NLP

Jun 2023 13B
Language Open Weights
Sapienza NLP

Camoscio

Sapienza NLP

Apr 2023 7B
Language Open Source
PD

BART-IT

Politecnico di Torino

Jan 2023 140M
Language Open Weights
GS

IT5 Base

gsarti

Mar 2022
Language Open Source
IC

GePpeTto

ILC-CNR

Apr 2020 117M
Language Open Source

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