Italy leads European project to bring AI to interact with the physical world
The most ambitious European initiative on artificial intelligence has a Latin name: Diversibus Viis Plurima Solvo ("Through different paths, I solve more problems"). Acronym, DVPS. It is led by Translated, an Italian company specializing in AI-based language solutions, together with 20 organizations from nine countries.
The project, funded with 29 million euros by the Horizon Europe program, aims to develop a new generation of artificial intelligence systems capable of learning from direct interaction with the real world, combining linguistic, visual and sensory data.
Beyond ChatGPT: AI that "touches" realityWhile language models like ChatGPT dominate the AI debate, DVPS aims to overcome their limitations: “Current systems learn from static texts and images, but they don’t understand the physical context in real time,” explains Marco Trombetti, CEO of Translated.
The goal is to create multimodal foundation models that integrate visual inputs, spatial audio and sensors to act in complex environments – such as a crowded room where it is difficult to distinguish who is speaking – or to support doctors and first responders.
From medicine to emergencies: the applicationsThe applications of this AI frontier are many: Advanced translation, through speaker identification in noisy situations, using gaze direction, gestures and 3D audio. Healthcare, through early diagnosis of heart disease thanks to a digital twin of the heart generated by medical imaging. Civil protection, thanks to flood forecasting with satellite data, drones and real-time sensors.
Who is behind DVPSIn addition to Translated, the consortium includes 70 researchers from universities such as Oxford, ETH Zurich and EPFL, as well as hospitals and supercomputing centers such as Cyfronet in Poland. A pan-European team to compete with the US and China, aiming for an AI that is "more adaptable and less dependent on static data".
DVPS is a step towards EU technological sovereignty. And Translated wants to be a leader in this process. The company, already known for Lara (its AI translation system equal to human professionals), thus confirms Italy's role in linguistic innovation.
Lara V2, the evolution of its machine translation system, has just been launched, which - the company claims - improves quality by up to 46% in 50 languages and language variants, including British/American English and Canadian French. The new model, presented on June 4, 2025, combines a redesigned architecture with Trust-Attention V2 technology, which favors high-quality linguistic data for more contextual results.
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