Italian startup iGenius has agreed to establish one of the largest AI systems globally in southern Italy and announced this with the help of Nvidia. Nvidia’s latest servers would be integrated into the new system, making the central computing power of AI for iGenius immensely more superior. It will also have around 80 GB200 NVL72 servers by mid-2025; each server will have 72 Blackwell chips, making the data center a kingpin in AI computation tasks.
iGenius and Nvidia to Build Major AI Hub in Italy
Colosseum will be an important project for iGenius; the company has €650 million this year to finance their investments. According to the startup, the overall expense of this plan was not revealed, but the CEO of iGenius, Uljan Sharka, also added that this startup still attracts funding for this elaborate AIS computing system. The center wants to bring out strong, secure AI solutions for firms in highly sensitive industries, including finance and healthcare.
In this regard, iGenius’ concept of AI is different from those of the market giants such as OpenAI. The startup relies especially on the creation of closed-source software models relating to artificial intelligence, which clients, for instance, from the financial or healthcare business, can run on their own closed platforms. The company’s ability to develop personalized AI solutions for businesses and adapt to abide by rules concerning data storage and privacy puts iGenius at a vantage in the APAC market filled with stiff competition.
The Colosseum project is to advance the use of AI in Europe, as iGenius and Nvidia have plans to explore fresh applications for industries that require artificial intelligence but are wary of exposing their data. With customizable, on-site machine learning models, iGenius is aligned as the premier employer of secure artificial intelligence for business entities dealing with heightened privacy sensitivity.
This year, iGenius, an Nvidia-funded start-up, is all set to become one of Europe’s leading AI start-ups with the increasing base of its customers and strong support from Nvidia’s hardware. More than a feat of IT architecture, Colosseum is a symbol of the way AI is being adopted across verticals and an example of what control can look like even as more businesses ownership of their data is decentralized.
iGenius Leverages Nvidia’s Software Tools for Colosseum AI Models
iGenius is expanding the Colosseum project with the help of Nvidia’s extensive software toolkit that includes the latest Nvidia NIM that was launched recently. NVIDIA is similar to Google Play for AI applications and provides a way of organizing, deploying, and managing AI models throughout the Nvidia platform. This integration will allow iGenius to solve problems on how to deploy/roll out its AI models and to amplify the reach of the system.
With the help of such collaboration, iGenius wants to create really advanced AI models, the complexity of which was described by the number of parameters; the more parameters, the higher the complexity—and here, the values might reach one trillion. These models will be able to address more complex and sophisticated tasks to further the envelope of what is conceivable in the application of AI technology. One of the key factors that attract commercial interest in these models is the scale and raw computational power of the AI models employed in them.
Another benefit that iGenius has been able to derive from using Nvidia NIM is that the distribution of its AI models is easy. In this way, iGenius is gaining confidence that its models will be available to any business that uses Nvidia chips with the help of Nvidia’s infrastructure. Due to the cross-platform functionality, the potential audience for the application of iGenius’ AI models will increase many times over, thus making them more versatile for any field.
The partnership with Nvidia also enables iGenius to harness the firm’s effective core tools in model training, optimization, and deployment. These tools will improve not only the effectiveness of the Colosseum’s AI models but also make it possible to easily tailor the company’s AI solutions to the requirements of different industries—such as banking or healthcare—that often require their customized AI solutions.
With the current growth of the AI business, iGenius embedding itself with Nvidia’s software and hardware solutions prepares the company for the continually expanding demands for effective and scalable AI models. With Colosseum, iGenius seeks to establish a new generation of AI systems as key enablers of competitive advantage for demanding organizations, whilst at the same time, respecting the strategic imperatives that form industry verticals.
iGenius Revolutionizes AI Deployment with Nvidia's NIM Tool
Based on the NIM software tool provided by Nvidia, which works like an app store for AI models, iGenius has simplified the process of integrating these models for business. In an interview with the CEO of iGenius, Uljan Sharka explained that with the click of a button, companies can pull AI models from Nvidia’s catalog for easy adoption. It has become easier and less complicated to put in complicated AI solutions, hence very much suitable for various companies and industries.
To turn the Colosseum into the new AI powerhouse, Nvidia’s flagship servers will be among the largest in the data center. At Nvidia, Charlie Boyle, who is the vice president of DGX systems, said the ambitious plan, pointing to the fact that the project can change the way artificial intelligence is implemented across the world. The system will become the foundation for iGenius, to facilitate the creation of truly sophisticated artificial intelligence tools.
A team of Nvidia’s software and hardware engineers is now working with iGenius to take the Colosseum system live. Such collaboration guarantees that the AI models employed within the structure of Colosseum are fine-tuned in terms of performance and horizontal expansiveness. As experts in technical computing, Nvidia combined with iGenius, who are full of ideas, the project will redefine how AI models are built and deployed.
Boyle went as far as to say that unlike any others, iGenius is developing something quite special in Colosseum. It’s not only about having strong hardware but also revolves around a need for creating the necessary software utilities in order for such resources to prove their full potential. With the help of working with Nvidia’s latest technology and with iGenius’ vision, Colosseum will become a gravitational center for AI.
The emergence of Colosseum opens a new page in AI model deployment that allows businesses to apply ready AI solutions without much effort. In this way, with the support of Nvidia’s hardware and NIM software tools, iGenius is starting to be recognized as an AI infrastructure leader while preparing the ground for the second AI wave.
