AI-F1 competition: accelerating Australia with sovereign AI

The challenge

Earlier this year, we invited Australia’s boldest thinkers to answer one big question:

How would you use Australia’s most powerful public AI supercomputer to address our nation’s biggest challenges and opportunities?

The ResetData AI-F1 Competition called on innovators across health, housing, technology and sustainability to imagine what sovereign AI could do for Australia.

What was at stake

AI-F1, our sovereign AI Factory in Melbourne’s CBD, is powered by 1,024 NVIDIA H200 GPUs. It represents a breakthrough national asset, making enterprise-grade AI available onshore and on demand.

One winning project was awarded up to 200 billion tokens valued at approximately $1 million to bring their AI-accelerated vision to life.

Selection criteria

Entries were judged on:

• Sovereignty: keeping Australian AI data and IP onshore

• Impact: making the biggest difference in health, housing, technology or sustainability

• Readiness: technology maturity and ability to scale quickly

• Capability: strength of the team to maximise sovereign AI resources
  

The panel

The competition was judged by a panel of leaders in technology, innovation and enterprise, including:

• Bass Salah - Co-Founder, ResetData

• Marcel Zalloua - Co-Founder, ResetData

• Adam Spencer - Broadcaster and AI Advocate

• Sudarshan Ramachandran - NVIDIA ANZ Country Manager

• Brendan Hopper - CIO for Technology, Commonwealth Bank

• Dr Catherine Ball - Futurist and Technologist
  

Timeline

• Submissions closed: 30 September 2025

• Winner announced: AI-Day at SXSW Sydney, 15–16 October 2025