Tag: Sovereign AI

Canberra reveals early thinking on how to capture AI gains

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A public-interest research payment and a compute reservation scheme are among the options being considered by the federal government to capture the economic gains from frontier AI training in...

Greens push for tougher AI guardrails and sovereign capability

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The Greens’ new spokesperson on artificial intelligence David Shoebridge has flagged new policies from the party on sovereign AI capability development and a tougher stance on digital protections for...

Australia’s AI fragility is no longer deniable

Posted on   |  by Simon Kriss
The recent sudden access block of Anthropic’s latest model has revealed just how vulnerable Australia’s AI economy really is. On the evening of June 12, Anthropic received an export-control...

Australian ambition must include local AI models: Charlton

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia should be ambitious about creating local AI models and building the tools and applications that will run on them, assistant minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy...

Firmus secures $330m to build green AI factory in Tasmania

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Singaporean headquartered infrastructure company Firmus Technologies has raised $330 million to accelerate the rollout of Australia’s first green AI factory, with a cornerstone investment from Ellerston Capital and strategic...