Not an ‘excessive punt’: Sovereign AI price tag revealed


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Australia could develop a sovereign AI capability for around $100 million in compute costs, experts claimed on Tuesday, as the federal government’s lack of support for the local sector came under renewed fire.

UTS Human Technology Institute’s Professor Nick Davis told the Senate inquiry into AI adoption that Australia has three strategies for acquiring the capability.

Either accept US market leading large language models and the limitations on transparency and data sets they come with, use open-source models and accept a performance gap, or develop sovereign large language model using Australian data and experts.

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