Australia is missing AI boom, warns investor in Anthropic, OpenAI

Boman Group chief executive Eric Gao bought into Anthropic and OpenAI. He wishes there were more Australian AI firms to invest his fund’s $1 billion of capital.

 

As chief executive of Boman Group, a fund manager that invests the money of wealthy Chinese Australians in global artificial intelligence giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and Databricks, Eric Gao says he is struggling to find Australian AI companies worth backing, as the firm passes a milestone of $1 billion in funds under management.

Boman Group invests across Asia and further afield and is looking to make its first deals with Chinese companies, after a protracted process that saw it take two years securing licences to operate in China. Gao said the 15-year-old company was seeing great opportunities to buy in frontier AI companies, robotics and digital assets, and was keen to invest in the highly anticipated SpaceX public float.

 

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澳洲经济圆桌会议

首席说|欧洲的麻烦,不只在街头;这场经济困局,澳洲也该警惕

近期,法国、比利时、意大利等欧洲国家的抗议,让教育、公共支出和生活成本问题再次成为焦点。这些抗议各有背景,但其中反复出现的诉求,是改善公共服务、反对福利削减,以及减轻日常生活的负担。一个值得留意的反差是:部分右翼力量获得更多支持的同时,要求政府提供更多社会保障的声音依然存在。政治选择与街头诉求未必来自同一群人,但这也说明,只用左右翼之争,解释不了民众对生活处境的不满。在我看来,更值得追问的是:民众希望政府做得更多,但经济增长和财政能力,还能不能支撑这些期待?从能源成本到工业出口,再到政府债务和产业竞争力,这才是我想讨论的欧洲困局,也是澳洲需要警惕的问题。

Australia is missing AI boom, warns investor in Anthropic, OpenAI

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