ResetData is celebrating the launch of its first ‘AI Factory’ in Melbourne with a national AI competition whose winner will receive $1 million worth of AI compute and mentorship.
Entries are currently open for AI projects that aim high with the competition site saying “your scope is the whole country” and “your goal is the greatest benefit to the greatest number of Australians.”
The winner, to be announced at SXSW Sydney in October, will receive around 200 billion tokens to use on the NVIDIA H200 GPU clusters powering ResetData’s AI-focused supercomputer.
“ResetData is inviting innovators, startups, researchers, and organisations to submit bold ideas that can drive meaningful change in Australian society,” ResetData Co-CEO Marcel Zalloua said.
The winner will be judged by a panel of experts including:
- NVIDIA’s ANZ Country Manager, Sudarshan Ramachandran
- CommBank’s CIO of Technology, Brendan Hopper
- Leading Futurist, Dr Catherine Bell
- Australian Comedian and Tech Commentator, Adam Spencer
- ResetData’s Co-CEOs, Bass Salah and Marcel Zalloua.
Entries will be judged on their Australian sovereignty; making the biggest difference to Australian health, housing or sustainability; having the highest technology readiness level; and having the strongest team to maximise the AI tokens for training or inference.
The competition is open until 30 September.
Bass Salah, joint CEO of ResetData, said it was now Australia’s time to become “a true AI powerhouse”.
“As a proudly Australian-owned company, we’re not just launching a supercomputer – we’re launching Australia’s AI future,” Salah said.
“Our AI-F1 Factory puts cutting-edge AI capabilities directly into the hands of government and businesses, ensuring they can compete globally while keeping their data protected and onshore.
“Australia’s legacy data centres already consume more than 47 billion litres of freshwater a year – that’s the equivalent of 18,800 Olympic sized swimming pools – and more energy than South Australia.
“With Australia’s national data centre fleet set to double by 2030, and AI workloads being ten times more resource-intensive than cloud workloads, a more sustainable path to AI is critical and ResetData is delivering it.”
AI-F1 is a sovereign, commercially operated GPU cluster housed in a pre-existing Melbourne CBD facility. That location reduces latency for enterprise users, while its liquid-immersion cooling system delivers far greater energy and water efficiency than conventional data centres.
“ResetData’s supercomputer-scale AI Factories are making unprecedented public sovereign AI capabilities available to Australian government and enterprises while addressing these critical sustainability challenges,” said Sudarshan Ramachandran, regional enterprise country manager for NVIDIA.
It’s designed as a publicly accessible, on-demand AI factory, meaning Australian businesses and researchers can rent cutting-edge NVIDIA H200 GPU power locally without capital outlay, keeping their data onshore and bypassing the bottlenecks of private or offshore clusters.
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