Neo4j’s investment highlights graph technology’s critical role in practical AI, providing essential context to unlock efficiency gains from GenAI and ML.
AWS’s New Zealand region is essential expansion, yet broader investment shifts toward high-risk, high-reward AI infrastructure will affect core cloud services.
Creative AI is evolving beyond manual prompting to programmatic, high-throughput image generation with enhanced governance and analytics features.
Microsoft’s Azure expansion in Perth will cut latency and boost resilience for WA and ASEAN customers, enabling local hosting of critical workloads, especially for the public and resources sectors.
Special Report:
This report discusses the impact and recent announcements regarding Qwen, a Chinese AI model. IBRS is not advocating for Chinese AI. Rather, we argue that there are compelling opportunities and strong economic drivers to create a sovereign AI capability using open source models from around the world. The recent announcement from Qwen drives home the importance and imperative to explore Australian sovereign AI capabilities.
Google’s Ironwood TPU targets AI inference cost/efficiency, vital for scaling complex models amidst fierce competition.
Google’s GDC now hosts Gemini, Vertex AI on-premises, enabling sovereign AI for regulated sectors, strengthening hybrid cloud offerings.
Nerdio’s $500m investment signals cloud management market maturation amidst on-premise shifts. Delivery challenges require global expansion and enhanced partner enablement.
ServiceNow has made a strategic acquisition of Moveworks to improve its AI and workflow automation capabilities. This move aims to boost employee support, enterprise search, and productivity across various business functions.
