18-03-2025

Velvet, a family of multilingual generative AI models developed by Almawave, is now available on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, making access and adoption easier in Italy and international markets.
The two companies aim to promote real-world AI use cases, leveraging Almawave's AI solutions and Oracle's distinctive and secure infrastructure capabilities.

Valeria Sandei, CEO of Almawave, commented: “The collaboration with Oracle Italia opens up new and tangible opportunities for businesses and public administrations currently looking to adopt ready-to-use AI solutions that are effective and sustainable, designed and created in our country, and implemented securely.”

“Oracle is a strategic partner of tremendous value for us, thanks to our shared vision, infrastructural capability, and speed of execution. Following the open-source release of Velvet on Hugging Face, now seeing it available on OCI confirms the validity of our approach and strengthens our commitment to becoming a benchmark model for Italy and beyond, fully aware that this is just the beginning.”

Andrea Sinopoli, Vice President and Cloud Tech Country Leader at Oracle Italia, added: “The synergy between Oracle and Almawave highlights the potential of cloud-enabled AI. Our primary goal is to create shared value for the customers of both companies, by combining Almawave's unique expertise in AI and its Velvet models and the distinctive capabilities of the OCI AI Infrastructure. This will make it possible for us to deliver increasingly high-performance, scalable, and secure solutions.”