# An Italian Lab's 1-Billion-Parameter Model Reports 94 Percent on AIME 2026, Trained on Under 300 Billion Tokens

Paradigma released Limite 1B Violetto under Apache 2.0 with a 131,072-token context, a dense transformer built for one domain and nothing else.

- Published: 2026-09-24T06:18:20.538Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-24/an-italian-lab-s-1-billion-parameter-model-reports-94-percen
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [Paradigma](https://paradigma.inc/blog/limite-1b-violetto/)

Paradigma, an Italian artificial intelligence laboratory, published Limite 1B Violetto, a dense autoregressive transformer (a type of neural network architecture) of roughly one billion parameters with a context window of 131,072 tokens, tr…

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