Govt, opposition in lockstep on AI training outposts


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

US outposts in Australia to train frontier artificial intelligence models would build up local capability and lift productivity, Industry minister Tim Ayres said Tuesday in the latest signal policy shifts are imminent.

Senator Ayres, who has delegated much of the AI advocacy to his assistant minister Andrew Charlton, threw his weight behind hosting firms like Anthropic and OpenAI, comparing their presence to industry heavyweights of the past that drove local …

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