This paper presents Fauno, the first and largest open-source Italian conversational Large Language Model (LLM). Our goal with Fauno is to democratize the study of LLMs in Italian, demonstrating that obtaining a fine-tuned conversational bot with a single GPU is possible. In addition, we release a collection of datasets for conversational AI in Italian. The datasets on which we fine-tuned Fauno include various topics such as general question answering, computer science, and medical questions. We release our code and datasets on \url{https://github.com/RSTLess-research/Fauno-Italian-LLM}

翻译：本文介绍了法乌诺（Fauno），首个且规模最大的开源意大利语对话式大型语言模型（LLM）。我们的目标是通过法乌诺推动意大利语LLM研究的普及化，证明仅需单块GPU即可获得一个经过微调的对话机器人。此外，我们发布了一套意大利语对话式人工智能数据集，微调法乌诺所用的数据涵盖通用问答、计算机科学及医学问题等主题。相关代码与数据集已发布于 \url{https://github.com/RSTLess-research/Fauno-Italian-LLM}。