Editor-in-Chief Sarah O’Carroll on AI, inflation, and what else to expect from Forbes Australia’s 8th issue. This time last year, the world hadn’t heard of ChatGPT. But since the generative AI tool’s launch by OpenAI on November 30, 2022, there’s been little else the tech sector has talked about. But if 2023 was the year of the great AI revolution, 2024 looks set to […]
Artisse AI: Aiming to help guys get more dates … and destroy the photography, modelling and advertising industries while it’s at it. Artisse AI founder William Wu was in South Korea working with a K-pop agency trying to create a virtual idol for his blockchain gaming business, Catheon Gaming, when the idea hit. The images […]
From ChatGPT to facial and voice recognition, autonomous vehicles to robotics, artificial intelligence is the talk of the town. Meet the investors trying to gain real exposure to the sector and the companies poised to benefit from its meteoric rise. Forbes Australia Issue 7 is out now. Tap here to secure your copy. Artificial intelligence (AI) […]
It’s taken more than 20 years, a bucket of grit and a rare ability to find help across the globe, but Daniel Timms is poised to make heart transplants a thing of the past. This story featured in Issue Seven of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. Billy Cohn is a world-renowned heart […]
Australia’s film-industry disruptor, Blackmagic Design, has released a suite of new products it hopes will propel it back to its pandemic highs – including a free app for shooting cinematic, feature-film-quality video on your iPhone. CEO and founder Grant Petty takes aim at those who tell him he shouldn’t be giving it away. “I always […]
Australia has some of the world’s best space technology companies and yet contributes just 1% to the global space sector. Experts say there’s an imbalance between our technical and sovereign capability. Regardless, they believe the future is bright for the country’s burgeoning space industry. As billionaires continue to launch their rockets into the stratosphere, the space […]
Melbourne biotech startup ENA Respiratory has demonstrated how its flu-and-Covid fighting nasal spray had stimulated a host of immune-related genes in its trial on 123 human subjects, it announced Monday. But it’s pivoting to a new formulation. ENA Respiratory spun out of the University of Melbourne in 2015 but came of age in the depths […]
Josh Simons’ family is the stuff of music legend. His grandfather was an early partner in Leeds Publishing, which went on to become what’s today known as Universal Music Publishing Group. Today, Simons is at the helm of Australia’s only ASX-listed music business, Jaxsta. With an acquisition and launch under its belt and a cash […]
Dubbed the “origami of death”, Melbourne-made flatpack drones assembled with glue and rubber bands have been hitting targets inside Russia since June, most recently destroying US$100 million worth of aircraft. Family-owned Australian company SYPAQ Systems has been sending 100 cardboard drones a month to Ukraine for the last year. Designed to carry more benign payloads, […]
Melbourne biotech Aravax is in the middle of peanut allergy drug trials which, if successful, promise to open up an estimated US$4-billion global market. In a Nutshell It takes courage to tackle peanut allergy. In the 1990s, a child died during a clinical trial after an injection of peanut extract. It was a dosing error, […]