Innovation

The Forbes Innovator 250: America’s Greatest Innovators showcases the visionaries shaping our future. Find the full list of great minds and the mark they are leaving on our history.

AI companies have long been fighting to get their hands on GPUs. This week, a stealthy Queensland startup came out with a chip that computes using sound waves, rather than electricity, and may one day be an alternative to in-demand GPUs.

Sam Altman founded his first tech company as a teenager and was running Y combinator, the world’s leading startup accelerator, by 28. As CEO of OpenAI, the 40-year-old billionaire unleashed ChatGPT, creating a $500 billion behemoth. As a new father, he’s building the future his kids will have to live in. Oh yeah, and the rest of us, too.

Doone Roisin’s presence in Davos reflects a mission that began years earlier — on a bedroom floor, when she launched her podcast — and has since grown into a global platform championing women who are building wealth through business.

Checkbox, an Australian-founded AI start-up that wants to build an AI ‘front door’ for in-house legal teams, will use the cash to build out its automated workflows.

For Australian investors and founders, the big questions are which parts of biotech are becoming repeatable businesses, and which parts remain experimental theatre, writes Anthony Liveris.

From an intelligent ‘longevity mirror’ to Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot, CES is the place to be to see the next round of cutting-edge technology. Dr Catherine Ball’s boots were on the ground in Las Vegas.

An ‘orchestrator’ or ‘fixer’ of AI owns a company’s internal AI operating layer – deciding where AI should live, how it should be used, writes Annie Liao.

SXSW Sydney, the Australian extension of the iconic tech, music and film conference born out of Austin, Texas, will not return for 2026.

Y Combinator is leading the round, backed by Australia’s NextGen Ventures, Antler and Meat & Livestock Australia, as GrazeMate expands from Queensland and NSW into California.