NVIDIA is collaborating with Italian supercomputing organizations, academic institutions, AI startup Domyn, and other companies to drive industrial transformation through local AI factories and sovereign AI infrastructure. This initiative marks a modern renaissance in Italy, reinforcing the country’s rich design and manufacturing legacy while positioning it as a leader in the development of sovereign AI within Europe. As part of this movement, Italy is building domestic AI infrastructure in partnership with an ecosystem of NVIDIA Cloud Partners and telecom providers, including Fastweb. Fastweb, a prominent Italian telecommunications company, has deployed the country’s first NVIDIA DGX H100 supercomputer to support national AI development. Leveraging this powerful system, Fastweb is also creating an Italian language model tailored for generative AI applications. Meanwhile, Domyn, an AI model developer known for its Domyn Small and Domyn Large models, is working alongside NVIDIA to establish a large-scale AI factory powered by 5,760 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs, further strengthening Italy’s position in the sovereign AI landscape.Sovereign AI has sparked a new Italian renaissance around industrial transformation.
Supporting its design and manufacturing heritage, Italy is among leading European nations in its advanced development of sovereign AI.Italy joins European nations in building domestic AI infrastructure with an ecosystem of NVIDIA Cloud Partners and telecom providers such as Fastweb.
Italian telecommunications company Fastweb has deployed Italy’s first NVIDIA DGX H100 supercomputer to support national AI infrastructure. With these resources, Fastweb is introducing an Italian language model to support generative AI applications — trained and running on its NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer.Model builder Domyn — which developed Domyn Small and Domyn Large — is collaborating with NVIDIA on a large AI factory powered by 5,760 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs.
Italy Backs Sovereign AI to Drive Business Advances
Also, the Italian Ministry of Enterprise and the Made in Italy government initiative are working with Domyn to further boost the nation’s sovereign AI capabilities with advanced reasoning models. The Italian Ministry of Universities and Research is supporting and co-financing the IT4LIA AI factory initiative as well.The combination of efforts to deploy AI factory resources for delivering transformative sovereign AI will allow European enterprises, startups and government organizations to securely develop, train and deploy agentic and physical AI applications. CINECA provides the National HPC service and is a EuroHPC pre-Exascale hosting site with over 15,000 GPUs in the Leonardo supercomputer. They have played a key role in scaling AI codes from Mistral and Domyn.CINECA recently added the LISA supercomputer, which adds 1328 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs for AI for science applications.
CINECA has also been selected by EuroHPC to build a new AI factory, which will be operational in 2025. The new IT4LIA AI factory will provide new AI capabilities to both research computing and Italian startups.