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Why Australia needs its own AI large language model

Australia needs a large language model for AI development that reflects Australian values if we want to retain our economic and cultural sovereignty.

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AI is the technology of our time. The five largest companies in the world are AI companies. The revenue of the smallest of the five (Amazon) would see it placed at number 25 in the list of nations ranked by GDP.

AI is not a fad, and it is not going away; it is making far too much money for that to happen. The question for Australia is whether we want to participate in this new AI-enabled global economy.

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Professor Anton van den Hengel is the founding director and chief scientist of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning at the University of Adelaide.

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