Milestone’s Project Hafnia comes to Genoa

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — After launching in the USA, Milestone System's Project Hafnia is now engaged in Europe with the city of Genoa, Italy with the aim to develop AI-driven solutions to enhance traffic management systems and create smarter cities.

Project Hafnia uses regulation compliant video data trained with NVIDIA’s NeMo Curator on NVIDIA DGX Cloud. Milestone is one of the early adopters of the newly announced NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Smart City AI, a reference framework for optimizing city operations with digital twins and AI agents. Milestone is also expanding its data platform with NVIDIA Cosmos to generate synthetic video data from real world inputs. Leveraging both real and synthetic data, Milestone said it will build and train vision language models (VLMs) responsibly. European cloud provider Nebius will provide the required GPU compute to train the models.

VLMs learn to map the relationships between text data and visual data such as images or videos, allowing these AI-models to generate summaries and insights from visual inputs. Milestone Systems is working with NVIDIA to empower European cities like Genoa to build and fine-tune computer vision and AI applications on a foundation of fully compliant and ethically sourced data.

“I’m proud that with Project Hafnia we are introducing the world’s first platform to meet the EU’s regulatory standards, powered by NVIDIA technology. With Nebius as our European cloud provider, we can now enable compliant, high-quality video data for training vision AI models — fully anchored in Europe. This marks an important step forward in supporting the EU’s commitment to transparency, fairness, and regulatory oversight in AI and technology — the foundation for responsible AI innovation,” says Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone.

Project Hafnia now offers a fully European Visual Language Model for transportation management. The VLM is powered by NVIDIA and trained on a large volume of responsibly sourced and compliant transportation data from Genoa, Italy.

"AI is achieving extraordinary results, unthinkable until recently, and the research in the area is in constant development. We enthusiastically joined forces with Project Hafnia to allow developers to access fundamental video data for training new Vision AI models. This data-driven approach is a key principle in the Three-Year Plan for Information Technology, aiming to promote digital transformation in Italy and particularly within the Italian Public Administration,” says Andrea Sinisi, Information Systems Officer, City of Genoa.

NVIDIA cloud provider, Nebius, will serve as the EU-based cloud solution for Project Hafnia’s collaboration with Genoa.

“Project Hafnia is exactly the kind of real-world, AI-at-scale challenge Nebius was built for,” says Roman Chernin, Chief Business Officer of Nebius.“Supporting AI development today requires infrastructure engineered for high-throughput, high-resilience workloads, with precise control over where data lives and how it’s handled. From our EU-based data centers to our deep integration with NVIDIA’s AI stack, we’ve built a platform that meets the highest standards for performance, privacy and transparency.”