Why I’m Training an Italian Language Model from Scratch — With Two GPUs and No Funding

Italy is building its own AI models. Big companies, supercomputers, government backing. I’m doing it alone, on a single server, and I think that’s exactly the point. Fabio Angeletti - PhD in Computer Engineering (La Sapienza), Adjunct Professor at LUISS and LUISS Business School, Founder & CEO of LEAF. I bring emerging technologies to businesses before they go mainstream. This is the first article in a series documenting the full engineering journey of Dante-2B, a bilingual Italian/English language model trained from scratch. Let me start with a confession.