About SouthernCrossAI
SouthernCrossAI is Australia's sovereign AI infrastructure and services platform—created to give Australian enterprises, governments, and AI builders access to high-performance, compliant, and transparent AI solutions that never leave the country.
We believe Australia deserves its own LLM backbone—hosted locally, governed responsibly, and aligned with national priorities around privacy, trust, innovation, and resilience.
Watch Our CEO Introduce SouthernCrossAI
Why We Created SouthernCrossAI
As the impact of AI on our economy and society continued to grow, it became clear that AI was evolving faster than infrastructure, regulation, or governance could keep pace.
- •Enterprise and government leaders needed secure access to cutting-edge AI—but couldn't send sensitive data to offshore APIs or uncontrolled model pipelines.
- •AI builders needed compute capacity they could trust—without surprise billing, shared tenancy, or exposure to foreign laws.
- •Regulators were demanding better risk management, auditability, and transparency in AI deployments—especially in financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
We created SouthernCrossAI to close that gap.
Our mission is simple: Enable every Australian organisation to use AI—safely, securely, and at scale.
What We Do
SouthernCrossAI delivers a vertically-integrated sovereign AI platform, with four core pillars:
1. Inference-as-a-Service
Low-latency access to open and fine-tuned LLMs (e.g. Llama, Gemma, DeepSeek) from within Australia. Token-based pricing with transparent usage reporting.
2. Managed AI Workloads
Ready-to-deploy AI applications for document analysis, advisory support, ESG screening, legal QA, and more. Delivered with enterprise SLAs.
3. Private AI Infrastructure
High-speed AI infrastructure technology hosted in our sovereign nodes across NSW and South Australia, with nationwide expansion planned for every state by 2026. Available for fine-tuning, RAG, or secure internal workloads.
4. Enterprise Enablement
Support for regulated onboarding, compliance alignment (APRA, ASIC, IRAP), model governance, and risk frameworks.
Built in Australia, for Australia
Our sovereign AI infrastructure enables Australian organizations to deploy advanced AI capabilities while maintaining complete data sovereignty and regulatory compliance.
Enterprise AI Deployment
Deploy custom models and AI workflows with enterprise-grade security and compliance
Sovereign Data Processing
Process sensitive data entirely within Australian jurisdiction with zero foreign cloud dependencies
All model serving, logging, and orchestration takes place within Australian legal jurisdiction, without reliance on foreign cloud APIs.
Our architecture is designed to meet or exceed expectations under:
- • APRA CPS 234
- • ASIC AI governance guidance (e.g. Report 798)
- • The Australian Privacy Principles
- • ISO 27001 & IRAP-aligned control environments
Setting Up for Long-Term Success
We're investing in Australia's AI capability by:
Deploying our own high-throughput inference racks—reducing energy cost per token by up to 10× compared to traditional GPUs
Hiring technical talent across data, ML, and platform engineering, with a focus on diversity and public interest use cases
Partnering with enterprise and public-sector leaders to co-develop secure, auditable AI workloads tailored to Australian needs
Establishing AI governance standards that make it easier for boards, CIOs, CISOs, and compliance teams to adopt AI with confidence
Our strategy is long-term. We're building the rails for Australia's next generation of AI-native systems—where trust, speed, and sovereignty are built in from day one.
Join Us
Whether you're a CIO, regulator, AI researcher, or public servant—if you believe Australia needs its own infrastructure for trustworthy AI, we'd love to work with you.
Contact us to explore pilots, infrastructure partnerships, or use-case discovery.
We're here to help Australia lead—not follow—in the AI era.