29-07-2025

IBM and Almawave, an Italian company listed on the Euronext Growth Milan market (Ticker: AIW), part of the Almaviva Group and active in the Data & Artificial Intelligence sector, have announced a technology collaboration that has resulted in a Bring-Your-Own-Model integration between Velvet, the family of generative and multilingual AI models developed entirely in Italy by Almawave, and IBM watsonx, the IBM portfolio of AI products.

The collaboration aims to accelerate the business adoption of AI allowing Italian enterprises deploy and utilize Velvet with watsonx through a validated BYOM support.

The integration between Velvet and watsonx enables the combination of Almawave's fully Italian LLM language intelligence with the reliability, security and scalability of IBM watsonx, providing an advanced, secure and EU-compliant on-premises AI solution focused on data strategy.