NEW YORK & MILAN – Dec. 5, 2024 – iGenius, a pioneer in AI models for highly regulated industries, today announced it is deploying one of the world’s largest NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips to support the deployment of advanced models for financial services, healthcare and public sector customers worldwide.

The iGenius Colosseum supercomputer features NVIDIA DGX GB200 systems containing thousands of NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips designed for real-time trillion-parameter inference and training.

iGenius will use the Colosseum supercomputer to build advanced AI applications, including training open-source generative AI and trillion-plus-parameter large language models. Colosseum will be located in Europe and features state-of-the-art liquid cooling.

It is expected to deliver 115 exaflops of computational performance (115,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second), all powered by renewable energy from Italy. Colosseum will provide a foundation for the next phase of iGenius’ collaboration with NVIDIA to develop AI models to support industry use cases that require maximum data security, reliability and accuracy, such as financial consulting, patient services, and government planning.

Built with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, NVIDIA Nemotron models and the NVIDIA NeMo framework, the iGenius AI models will be offered as NVIDIA NIM microservices. iGenius plans to offer customers the option to deploy the models and microservices as fully managed applications that can include cloud-based or on-premises NVIDIA accelerated computing to meet industry and government regulations for AI.

In addition to advancing the research and development of iGenius models for highly regulated industries, Colosseum will serve as a collaboration hub, connecting enterprises, academic institutions, and policymakers to help ensure equitable access to AI technologies.

"Colosseum provides organizations with one of the world’s greatest arenas for establishing new standards for innovation and speed in AI for regulated industries".

"We designed this supercomputer for unicorn use cases that can deliver $1B+ in value. Combining our expertise with NVIDIA accelerated computing and software helps unlock transformative opportunities to solve extraordinary, once-unsolvable challenges in finance, healthcare and government to serve customers worldwide." – Uljan Sharka, CEO of iGenius.

“AI is the most transformative technology of our time and NVIDIA computing and software provides the platform for nations and enterprises to prepare for this monumental shift".

The iGenius Colosseum NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with Grace Blackwell Superchips serves an AI factory that will accelerate the development and deployment of AI applications that meet regulatory requirements and align with local languages and culture.” – Charlie Boyle, vice president of DGX platforms, NVIDIA.

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Colosseum: A Hub for Sovereign AI and Regulated Industry Models

Leveraging the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, the Colosseum supercomputer offers a transformative leap in speed and energy efficiency. Colosseum addresses the growing computational demands of artificial intelligence with 25x greater energy efficiency than prior-generation NVIDIA computing platforms — all while boosting Global computational capacity for AI workloads.

Built on the NVIDIA DGX accelerated computing platform, Colosseum is designed to integrate seamlessly with iGenius’ specialized AI models, including its GPT for Numbers, a proprietary AI architecture designed to minimize hallucinations in support of mission-critical use cases that involve financial data, customer information and intellectual property. Among the first to adopt iGenius models are world-leading financial asset and wealth management companies, including F100 global financial institutions.

Sovereign AI infrastructure is a key pillar of AI-driven transformation, and Colosseum is expected to pave the way for transparent AI development, helping enable sovereign AI deployments. By addressing the unique demands of sectors where precision, reliability, privacy and safety are paramount, the system can serve as the foundation for establishing new standards for AI-driven innovation in regulated environments.

This democratization of computational power helps lay the groundwork for innovation across sectors and is expected to foster advancements across industries while driving sustainable growth worldwide.

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