India, June 2 -- Monash University will transform Australia's sovereign Artificial Intelligence (AI) research capability by investing $60 million to build and operate an advanced AI supercomputer. This will place the University as a leader in AI-driven research within the international higher education and research sector.

The investment will fill a critical gap in Australia's high-performance computing infrastructure, which is currently not meeting research and industry demands, as recently highlighted by the Australian Academy of Science and the Tech Council of Australia.

The platform, Monash AdVanced Environment for Research and Intelligent Computing (MAVERIC), will enable researchers based in Australia's higher education sector to p...