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Highlights
AI and Information: Babelscape at the Disclaimer event at Sapienza University of Rome
The event Disclaimer - Ultime avvertenze prima della rivoluzione recently stopped at Sapienza Università di Roma for a discussion dedicated to AI and Information.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the way we communicate, access information, and interpret reality. The meeting at Sapienza focused precisely on this relationship: how AI is reshaping science communication, journalism, public discourse, and the responsibilities of those who inform society.
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ADRIANO: Embodied Artificial Intelligence for Public Services
ADRIANO, the first robotic employee in the Italian Public Administration, ready to transform visitor reception and information services at the Temple of Vibia Sabina and Hadrian, the prestigious headquarters of the Capital’s economic institution.
Equipped with artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technology, ADRIANO will become operational on March 24, 2025, welcoming citizens and tourists and providing information, in Italian and English, about the history of Rome and the historic site of the Rome Chamber of Commerce.
Product Upgrade
Babelscape Vera is now live - Try the free demo!
We’re thrilled to announce that Babelscape Vera, our LLM-powered virtual assistant for fact-checking, is now online!
Vera intelligently gathers, analyzes, and validates claims using credible sources, ensuring accuracy and transparency
through in-depth, evidence-based analysis.
The live demo is now available, try it for free and experience the future of fact-checking today!
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Babelscape co-founder, Roberto Navigli appointed General Chair of ACL 2025
We are proud to announce that Roberto Navigli, internationally renowned AI professor at Sapienza University and creator of Minerva - Italy's national Large Language Model - will serve as General Chair of ACL 2025, the world's premier conference on Natural Language Processing.
Held in Vienna from July 27 to August 1, ACL 2025 is set to be the largest edition in the conference's history, with nearly 6,000 participants from academia, industry, and major global tech players.
Research and Publications
Minerva: Italy's First Family of Large Language Models trained on Italian texts
The Minerva family of large language models (LLMs) is reshaping the AI landscape in Italy. Created by Sapienza NLP in collaboration with FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research) and CINECA, with additional support from Babelscape, Minerva is the first suite of AI models built from scratch to serve Italian-language needs while also supporting English.
Research and Publications
Graph RAG: smarter AI retrieval through knowledge graphs
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has revolutionized how AI systems access information, but it still struggles with context limitations and factual hallucinations.
At Babelscape, we have been experimenting with this technology on our multilingual knowledge graph WordAtlas (and others!) for quite some time now, with the aim of demonstrating how Graph RAG can transform AI understanding across languages.
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La Repubblica Talks About Us!
From Research Comes AI: All Made in Italy.
We had a conversation with La Repubblica about our commitment to creating synergy between the academic and industrial worlds.
It is from this synergy that innovative tools like Babelscape Vera emerge—a fact-checking system that we are proud to present at Maker Faire, bridging cutting-edge research with real-world applications.