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flag Sovereign Australia AI launches locally tailored AI models with national data sovereignty amid debate over foreign tech influence.

flag Sovereign Australia AI, a new Australian startup, is building locally tailored AI models—Australis, a 700-billion-parameter model, and Ginan, a smaller open-source version—using 256 Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs, the country’s largest sovereign AI hardware deployment. flag The company aims to reflect Australian culture, slang, and legal frameworks while ensuring data sovereignty amid concerns over the US Cloud Act. flag It plans to support government AI initiatives like Gov AI Chat and has pledged $10 million to copyright holders. flag While OpenAI expands in Australia with localized offerings, Sovereign Australia AI argues that foreign models may not align with national values. flag Critics, including Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes and tech expert Craig Dargusch, caution that Australia lacks sufficient historical text data and should focus on practical AI applications rather than building foundational models from scratch.

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