The Albanese government’s APS-wide trial of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence had an immediate chilling effect on local providers of competing technology, with a likely deal scrapped the following day, the Senate’s sovereign tech inquiry heard on Monday.
Trellis Data chief Michael Gately told the hearing that his company – which provides Copilot and ChatGPT like products – lost a contract just before signing last year because of the Microsoft announcement.
“We …
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