The Digital Transformation Agency has ruled out future cross-government trials of generative AI products just months after more than 7,600 public servants tested Microsoft Copilot.
The decision, which puts the tech giant further in the box seat with the federal government, comes despite assurances from the agency’s top brass that “more opportunities” would follow.
It also flies in the face of the government’s stated plan to back local AI companies, according to one senator, at a time when other countries are getting behind their local sector.
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Be aware that should Trump look for ways of sanctioning Australia in the future that shutting down our access to something like MS services would be an option. Plus, wht is Australi not doing its own thing when say Kazakstan is? Are we less independant than them, less innovative? See ISSAI KAZ-LLM: Kazakhstan’s Large Language Model https://nu.edu.kz/alumni/successtory/issai-kaz-llm-kazakhstan-s-large-language-model