The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is going all-in on generative AI after signing a deal with OpenAI to roll out its ChatGPT Edu platform to staff. It’s OpenAI’s biggest roll out in Australia as the US tech unicorn prepares to ramp up its presence in the region. UNSW has signed up for 10,000… Read more »
South West Sydney’s brightest innovators were given a chance to tell their stories at Pitch Night South West at the Liverpool Powerhouse. The initiative was led by UNSW Founders and featured eight finalists who pitched their business and social change ideas tackling key societal challenges. They ranged from harnessing the benefits of AI and giving… Read more »
Sydney biotech startup Smart MCs has secured $900,000 in funding through the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Linkage Program to scale its next-generation microcarrier technology for large-scale cell-based manufacturing. The project is a partnership between Smart MCs and the University of New South Wales, led by Associate Professor Christopher Marquis and Professor Kristopher Kilian, working alongside… Read more »
Two Sydney quantum startups have combined forces to developed technology that effectively reduces the size of the circuits required to run a silicon-based quantum computer. Diraq and Emergence Quantum published details in Nature today. Quantum bits (or ‘qubits’) must be held at cryogenic temperatures, near absolute zero (–273.15 °C), to preserve their information. But they… Read more »
Contactile, a deep tech startup giving robotics the subtlety of human-like touch, has scored $268,712 from the federal government under its Industry Growth Program The matched funding will go towards the the commercialisation of its tactile sensor-enabled smart robotic gripper. Contactile’s patented tactile sensor array has created a smart gripper measures 3D deflection, force, vibration, torque,… Read more »
University of NSW Professor Veena Sahajwalla, founding director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT) was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day honours list in recognition of her distinguished service to science as an engineer and inventor, sustainable materials research and technology and waste management.… Read more »
UNSW Sydney will be the first Asia-Pacific university collaborating with the US-based OpenAI to deploy ChatGPT Edu. The deal will allow UNSW researchers, educators and students to use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools on a secure platform, which means academics can protect their intellectual property and keep their prompt questions private while using the generative AI… Read more »
Sydney early-stage VC Investible will partner with UNSW’s Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TRaCE) program in a co-investment partnership to back climate tech startups emerging from the university. The Technology Commercialisation Venture Scheme will target Seed and Series A investments into UNSW climate-tech spin-offs and companies supported through TRaCE. The first-of-its-kind for an Australian… Read more »
A cleantech startup hoping to replacing the amount of diesel fuel in heavy-duty vehicles and machinery by up to 90% has been backed early-stage VC firm Investible. The level of pre-Seed funding for DeCarice from Investible’s Climate Tech Fund was not disclosed. DeCarice was founded in 2023 by engine industry veteran Goran Bozic, and Professor… Read more »
Sydney quantum startup Diraq is teaming up with a European R&D consortium to build a computer chip that combines the power of qubits with traditional transistors. The plan comes as Diraq, which was spun out of UNSW two years ago and focused on being able to incorporate millions of quantum bits (qubits) on a standard… Read more »
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has become the first tertiary institution to implement the federal government’s accredited Startup Year program for recent university graduates. Federal industry and science minister Ed Husic confirmed plans for the HECS-style loans program, an election promise designed to back university students to launch their own startups ideas, late… Read more »
UNSW Founders held its annual 10x Demo Day this week with 25 startups taking part, spanning programs focused on synthetic biology (synbio), climate, health, defence and an all-industries cohort that includes the crowd-lending impact platform LendForGood. The Climate 10x Accelerator was set up as part of the $280 million Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TraCE)… Read more »
If you’ve written a will – and if you haven’t, you may want to consider it – you’ve almost certainly thought about what you would like to happen to your assets, like property, after you pass away. But have you also considered getting your digital affairs in order? As our lives become increasingly digitised, most… Read more »
Former NSW digital government minister Victor Dominello has a new job after leaving politics at the March state election, signing on as the director of the university-based UNSW-UTS Trustworthy Digital Society Hub. The announcement comes on the same day Jihad Dib, the new Labor minister in charge of digital government marked Privacy Week, announcing the… Read more »
Australian engineers have found a new way of precisely controlling single electrons nestled in quantum dots that run logic gates. These new mechanism is less bulky and requires fewer parts, which could prove essential to making large-scale silicon quantum computers a reality. The serendipitous discovery, made by engineers at the quantum computing startup Diraq, which… Read more »
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