Could Australia build a frontier AI model to rival OpenAI or Anthropic? If it’s a competition of scale and raw compute, certainly not any time soon. But two Australian founders think there’s another angle: smaller, specialised models built to be the best at a specific thing.
Pip Bingemann co-founded Springboards, an AI platform for advertising and marketing teams that is optimised for creativity and novelty. Jesse Clark founded Celeris, which is focused on speed: LLMs that can respond in milliseconds, with utility in use cases that benefit from real-time responsiveness. Both companies started by building applications then went on to train their own AI models, and both leverage advancements in open-source AI technologies.
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, described the AI industry as a five-layer cake, with raw energy at the bottom, and AI models and applications at the top. Both of the founders in this episode are vying for a bigger slice of that AI cake, and if Australia is able to successfully compete at those top levels, the potential upside is huge.
Tom Humphrey, Partner at Blackbird, is the guest host for this episode, and speaks with Pip and Jesse about what it takes to actually train an AI model, how open-source and open-weight models are changing the AI landscape, and why Australia developing its own AI models could be important for national security.
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