[r/ML] [P] Dante-2B: I'm training a 2.1B bilingual fully open Italian/English LLM from scratch on 2×H200. Phase 1 done — here's what I've built.

Summary

A developer is training Dante-2B, a 2.1B bilingual Italian/English LLM from scratch to address the poor performance of existing open-source models with Italian text. Current LLMs treat Italian as an afterthought, leading to inefficient tokenization and morphology handling. Dante-2B aims to provide a truly bilingual solution, significantly improving AI applications for Italian speakers.

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