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Sovereign Australia AI launches locally tailored AI models with national data sovereignty amid debate over foreign tech influence.
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.
The company aims to reflect Australian culture, slang, and legal frameworks while ensuring data sovereignty amid concerns over the US Cloud Act.
It plans to support government AI initiatives like Gov AI Chat and has pledged $10 million to copyright holders.
While OpenAI expands in Australia with localized offerings, Sovereign Australia AI argues that foreign models may not align with national values.
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.
Sovereign Australia AI lanza modelos de IA adaptados a nivel local con soberanía de datos nacionales en medio del debate sobre la influencia tecnológica extranjera.