[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.
The problem If you work with Italian text and local models, you know the pain. Every open-source LLM out there treats Italian as an afterthought — English-first tokenizer, English-first data, maybe some Italian sprinkled in during fine-tuning. The resu…