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24 alternatives to boccaccioAI - 100% Italian LLM

A 100% Italian 700M LLM built entirely from scratch.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kolibri is Aleph Alpha

    19d ago · tej.as · its alternatives →

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    Some technical context on what we ran into building this. MCP tools don't really work for financial data at scale. One tool call for five years of daily prices dumps tens of thousands of tokens into the context window. And data vendors pack dozens of tools into a single MCP server, schemas alone can eat 50k+ tokens before the agent does anything useful. So we auto-generate typed Python modules from the MCP schemas at workspace init and upload them into the sandbox. The agent just imports them like a normal library. Only a one-line summary per server stays in the prompt. We have around 80…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We're Gabriel & Viraj, and we're excited to open source TensorZero. To be a little cheeky, TensorZero is an open-source platform that helps LLM applications graduate from API wrappers into defensible AI products. 1. Integrate our model gateway 2. Send metrics or feedback 3. Unlock compounding improvements in quality, cost, and latency It enables a data & learning flywheel for LLMs by unifying: • Inference: one API for all LLMs, with <1ms P99 overhead • Observability: inference & feedback → your database • Optimization: better prompts, models, inference strategies • Experimentation:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We are excited to announce Cedille, the largest language model for French (6b parameters). Demo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cedille.ai Language models are general purpose AI systems that are able to solve a range of tasks by simply being prompted for it. It can be used for example to summarize text, do translations, or for idea generation & overcoming writer's block. You may know GPT-3, the humongous model from OpenAI. Cedille is a similar model targeting the French demographic - but smaller, as we don’t yet have $1b in the bank like they do. Although GPT-3 supports multiple languages including…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I was a corporate lawyer for many years working with a lot of financial services and insurance companies. In practicing law, I noticed there was a lot of repetition in the tasks I was working on even as a highly paid attorney that could be automated. I wanted to solve the problem of dealing with a lot information and data in a practical way, using AI. This motivated me to start AI Bloks&#x2F;LLMWare with my husband, who had a deep background in software and is a very early adopter of AI. We have been on this journey with our open source project LLMWare for the past 4 months, producing a…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Accordio▲141

    Hey HN, I'm Roma, 21, from Bucharest, Romania. At 20 I was running a 12-person design studio doing €250K&#x2F;year. Then I lost €50K+ to clients who never paid. No contracts, just trust. Studio collapsed, I took €40K in debt. That experience led me to build Accordio – an AI-powered contract and payment platform for freelancers. The core idea: paste your meeting notes, AI extracts scope&#x2F;deliverables&#x2F;payment terms and generates a proposal. Client accepts → contract auto-generates. Contract signed → invoice auto-generates. Everything interlinked, no re-entering data across 4 different…

    2025 · accordio.ai · its alternatives →

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    Mammouth▲190

    Get access to the best LLMs in one place for 10€

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Improve your LLM apps with open-source observability tool

    2024 · langtrace.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI turns documents into multilingual training in 10 minutes

    Apr 2026 · immersive-fox.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! I was fed up switching between multiple UIs to ask GPT, Claude, etc… the same question and comparing the answers. So I built a way to ask multiple models the same question efficiently by having the LLM compare the responses and only show you new and valuable information from the 2nd model. This way you still get a fast response as normal from the 1st model, but also get any added value provided by the 2nd model. Initially I built my own UI to use this, but stumbled upon Open WebUI (formerly Ollama WebUI) which is fantastic, but is made more for local access to LLMs. So I talked to…

    2025 · polychat.co · its alternatives →

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    Bloomberg’s 50B parameter LLM, built for finance tasks

    2023 · bloomberg.com · its alternatives →

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    CRM, OSINT, and legal AI — in one platform

    Jan 2026 · lexitio.com · its alternatives →

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    WebApp specializing in German tenancy law, free to use

    2024 · leges.ai · its alternatives →

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    DIMBA II: a 288M-parameter masked-diffusion language model on a bidirectional Mamba-2 backbone. What worked, what failed, and what we

    Jul 2026 · hamiltonianresearch.xyz · its alternatives →

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    EU-Native LLM Observability. Stop Flying Blind on AI Spend.

    Feb 2026 · its alternatives →

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    I've seen a lot of comments about how complex frameworks like LangChain can be. Over the holidays, I wanted to see how minimal an LLM framework could get if we stripped away everything non-essential. The result is an LLM framework in just 100 lines of code. These 100 lines capture what I see as the core abstraction of most LLM frameworks: a nested directed graph that breaks down tasks into multiple LLM steps, with branching and recursion to enable agent-like decision-making. From there, you can layer on more advanced features like agents, RAG, task decomposition, and more. I’ve intentionally…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    5 ready-to-use Claude skills for Italian freelancers & SMBs

    Apr 2026 · getautomai.com · its alternatives →

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    Try the demo here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llm-trajectory.boesch.dev&#x2F; This is a write-up of a system I designed at a previous job. It's a natural language interface for industrial robots. The demo runs MuJoCo in the browser via WASM. The demo uses a free-tier LLM API with rate limiting, so it might be slow or unavailable under load, but feel free to check out the code and hook up your own inference service: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Encrux&#x2F;llm_trajectory

    Apr 2026 · boesch.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi, my name is Kam, and today my cofounder Josh and I are shipping Finterm, a CLI that gives coding agents direct access to financial data: stock prices, options data, SEC filings, and Ticker Deep Research, a filtered ticker news search. I’m a developer and have been a full-time trader for the past few years.Recently I have been using LLMs more and more in my trading and strategy. I always found it frustrating that Claude Code or GPT did not have direct access to actual financial information and had to rely on web search, so it couldn’t get me more granular numbers for specific options…

    Jul 2026 · finterm.ai · its alternatives →

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    Dal preventivo alla fattura elettronica, in automatico

    Jun 2026 · profattura.it · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been building LLM tooling for a small VC fund and found myself explaining the same mental model over and over to non-technical people around me: how a stateless LLM becomes a chatbot, how tool use works, what an agent is mechanically, and why context windows shape all of it. I never found a guide that covered that full chain at the level I wanted, so I wrote one. It’s nine short chapters, each building on the last. Deliberately simplified: the goal is a useful mental model, not a textbook. Feedback, corrections, and contributions welcome: github.com&#x2F;ymyke&#x2F;aiaiai

    Apr 2026 · aiaiai.guide · its alternatives →

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    AI per il manifatturiero italiano. Prezzo fisso, 2 settimane

    May 2026 · alpiflow.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Governance & Guardrails Template for FastAPI

    Jun 2026 · reliaai.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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