Today, the @Australian Financial Review’s @Tess Bennett covered our launch.

Sovereign Australia AI is a new venture building Australia’s largest sovereign AI capability.
At the heart of this launch is a record-breaking investment: 256 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs hosted in @NEXTDC’s secure Australian data centres. This gives our nation the scale to develop homegrown large language models that are transparent, ethical, and built with Australian values at their core.

We have also earmarked a huge AU$10m to ensure creatives are made whole for copyrighted materials – that’s Australian!
Our co-founders @Troy Neilson and @Simon Kriss bring decades of deep AI expertise, commercialisation experience, and global policy insight.
Our mission is simple but powerful: ensure Australians know what goes into the AI models shaping our future and that those models are trained and hosted here, not offshore.

We have already signed an MoU with the @Australian Computer Society (ACS) to deliver a bespoke sovereign AI system, showing the demand for ethical, sovereign alternatives is very real.

This is about more than technology. It’s about trust, transparency, and sovereignty in the AI era.

Read Tess Bennett’s full AFR coverage here:
https://www.afr.com/technology/we-can-do-it-for-under-100m-start-up-joins-race-to-build-local-chatgpt-20250908-p5mt5o