Minerva is the first LLM created from scratch with a focus on Italian, trained on an extensive dataset of open-access Italian and English sources, comprising trillions of words. Developed by the Sapienza NLP group, led by Professor Roberto Navigli, Minerva represents a groundbreaking advance in multilingual natural language processing. In collaboration with CINECA’s Leonardo supercomputer, Minerva benefits from state-of-the-art hardware.
Babelscape is spearheading the industrialization of Minerva, optimizing the model for real-world applications that require high-performance AI solutions. Minerva will soon be available to businesses, offering transparent and robust capabilities in text understanding, generation, and translation.