Albanese government to force AI giants such as Anthropic to share capacity with local start-ups

The Albanese government will force artificial intelligence giants such as Microsoft, Google and Anthropic to make available their huge data centre capacity to local start-ups and innovators in a bid to capture a growing share of the global AI supply chain.

In a speech to the Australian National University Crawford School on Tuesday, Assistant Technology Minister Andrew Charlton will outline a plan for Australia to capture 80 per cent of the AI supply chain, spanning data centres to model development, warning Australia cannot afford to settle for the bottom 20 per cent as it had historically with raw minerals.

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