Italian startup iGenius unveiled the Colosseum supercomputer on December 5, which the company claims is one of the world's largest Nvidia DGX SuperPOD systems. It is designed to support the deployment of advanced AI models for highly regulated sectors like financial services, healthcare, and public sector customers worldwide. Powered by Nvidia Grace Blackwell Superchips, Colosseum offers 115 exaflops of computational power (115,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second) and utilises renewable energy sourced from Italy.
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Colosseum Supports Advanced AI Models
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 liquid cooling.
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.
iGenius' Vision for AI in Regulated Sectors
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.
"We designed this supercomputer for unicorn use cases that can deliver USD 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," said 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," said Charlie Boyle, vice president of DGX platforms, Nvidia.
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Future of AI Development
According to the company, Colosseum addresses the growing computational demands of artificial intelligence with 25 times greater energy efficiency than previous-generation Nvidia computing platforms.
Built on the Nvidia DGX accelerated computing platform, Colosseum is designed to integrate with iGenius’ specialised AI models, including its GPT for Numbers, a proprietary AI architecture designed to minimise 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 financial asset and wealth management companies, including F100 global financial institutions, the company noted.
Sovereign AI infrastructure
"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," the company said.
According to Reuters, iGenius is building a data center that will house about 80 of Nvidia's most powerful servers, called GB200 NVL72 machines, each with 72 of the tech company's Blackwell chips in them. iGenius develops open-source AI models for chatbots, which it sells to banks, healthcare firms, and other industries with strict data security rules, who run the models on their own infrastructure.
