iGenius releases Colosseum 355B: an LLM powering Agentic AI for regulated industries
Milan/Brussels, January 16, 2025: The AI company iGenius announced today the launch of Colosseum 355B, a new state-of-the-art Large Language Model (LLM) with 355 billion parameters, designed to revolutionize AI capabilities in highly regulated industries. Built with the latest NVIDIA technology, Colosseum 355B enables regulated organizations to create regionally-specific LLMs with Continual Pre-Training (CPT). Additionally, it makes model building at scale accessible to more enterprises, a capability that was previously limited to hyperscalers.
Regulated industries have often faced complex AI challenges due to strict legislation and compliance requirements. Approximately 80% of the most valuable enterprise data cannot be exported and fine-tuned to centralized models and/or open models with a limited ownership license. Data such as personal information, financial transactions, trade secrets, and intellectual property cannot circulate outside of an organization’s network. As such, generative AI models can only be owned and controlled by governments and organizations that will use them with an isolated end-to-end experience. While centralized AI models/APIs are convenient for content generation and drafting, they are limiting for regulated industries. This is especially true of generative AI, which merges data and intellectual property irreversibly. For example, financial institutions sharing sensitive data with centralized LLMs can lead to potential data breaches or misuse, which can expose proprietary trading strategies, signal market intentions, and enable market manipulation.
One thing is clear, superintelligence must be decentralized to ensure the future of democracy and open markets. Colosseum 355B has helped push the boundaries of AI development for regulated industries.
