Australia is building its own competitor to ChatGPT. The country's first LLM is called Matilda
The first Australian LLM is being developed by startup Maincode. It's called Matilda and is trained specifically on local data.
The first Australian LLM is being developed by startup Maincode. It's called Matilda and is trained specifically on local data.
Maincode will focus on developing specialized versions, and in the future will introduce a universal product similar to ChatGPT, reports the Australian Financial Review.
Matilda is not yet released for public use, but registration for early access is open, ahead of a public debut at the SXSW Sydney conference in October.
The first generation of Matilda models will focus on solving uniquely Australian problems. The startup is working closely with local content providers, such as the Australian Taxation Office, to create a model that can answer very specific questions or help solve specific problems for Australians.
“Currently, Australians ask ChatGPT about local tax and legal issues or school subject choices, and it knows nothing about it but has to come up with something, so it hallucinates and provides incorrect information,” explained startup founder Dave Lemfers.
He added that their task was to create a model that local citizens and businesses could trust before becoming a global competitor to Mistral in Europe and companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI in the US.
Maincode will offer an “AI model factory” service, similar to those already available at OpenAI and Anthropic. This will allow it to create new specialized versions based on a core model, thus working with clients to develop AI solutions that meet their unique data and needs.
“We’re not trying to convince anyone that we’re at the level of OpenAI now, but we wanted to create a small, working ‘factory’ that would produce a model and then use that to scale,” Lemfers said.
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