Australia is all in on artificial intelligence. The emerging tech has sent shock waves throughout the tech world, but Australia is moving quickly to find uses for the tech to boost its cybersecurity and manufacturing industries, while simultaneously regulating AI and quelling national security concerns. The country’s AI industry is still growing and these are some of the companies pioneering the new tech.
Top AI Companies in Australia to Know
- Snap Inc.
- Udemy
- Freshworks
- Workiva
- Relevance AI
- Harrison.ai
- Leonardo.Ai
Top AI Companies in Australia
Atlassian’s AI-powered Rovo product leverages Atlassian Intelligence and Teamwork Graph to enhance team collaboration and productivity while enhancing cross-platform search. By implementing AI throughout its tools, Atlassian aims to streamline processes and provide real-time insights. The company has its global headquarters in Sydney.
Airwallex offers a platform that helps businesses manage cross-border payments, foreign exchange and global financial operations from a single system that incorporates AI capabilities. Originally founded in Australia, the company has expanded globally and continues to grow its presence across multiple regions.
Qualtrics uses data collection and analysis strategies to measure and adjust the experiences of employees and customers. It aims to improve experiences on products, services and the general relationship with the company. Its survey-based toolkit allows brands to solicit direct feedback. The company has Australian offices in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.
Snap, the parent company behind Snapchat, combines elements of photography, communication and social media in its mobile app. Snapchat’s My AI chatbot, built on ChatGPT, enhances user experience by answering trivia questions, offering trip suggestions and brainstorming gift ideas. To improve Snapchat’s capabilities and expand into new sectors such as smart home devices and automotive infotainment systems, Snap acquired the French/Dutch company GrAI Matter Labs. Its hiring in Sydney.
LogicMonitor helps clients across Australia optimize their IT operations with its AI-powered observability services. It also launched its own Edwin AI, an agentic artificial intelligence built for IT. The company’s machine learning solutions deliver automated troubleshooting, anomaly detection and predictive analytics.
Harrison.ai is a health company using artificial intelligence to tackle the global healthcare worker shortage. The company develops tools to provide clinical diagnosis and augment medical clinicians’ workflow. For example, its Annalise.ai platform is used by radiologists to analyze X-rays, while the Franklin.ai product works side-by-side with pathologists.
ServiceNow offers enterprise cloud computing solutions that allow businesses to work across silos, systems and teams through automation of workflows and tasks. It provides its users with solutions like encryption and data benchmarking. The company has Australian offices in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and Sydney.
Xero is a fintech firm with its Australian headquarters in Melbourne, where it is heavily focused on hiring talent in the fields of AI and machine learning. The company, which also has an office in Sydney, offers small business accounting software and incorporates AI capabilities into its solutions to help organizations automate time-consuming manual tasks and access insights that can help improve efficiency.
Udemy’s online platform gives learners access to a vast marketplace of course content to support their professional development, personal interests and well-being. The company has been working to launch generative AI solutions, such as an AI assistant to enhance the learning experience. For example, it can make personalized course recommendations and provide content summaries.
Workiva’s platform brings together financial reporting, ESG reporting and audit tools to provide comprehensive financial reports and data to customers in leading industries including banking and insurance. With its generative AI integration, the company is able to further expand its platform by using the tools to draft and revise documents and provide research aid.
Relevance AI is a no-code platform enabling users to create personal AI assistants. Through a chat bot interface users can interact with their AI assistant and assign it tasks such as data cleaning, email outreach or general-purpose research.
Freshworks develops workplace software including CRM platforms and IT software. And many of its products now have AI integrations that boost productivity, while other products use AI for customer-facing chatbots and general customer service needs. Headquartered in California, Freshworks maintains multiple office locations including a newly opened office in Melbourne.
Jasper is an AI-enabled marketing platform that established a strategic connection to Australia through its 2022 acquisition of the local startup Outwrite. This move created a dedicated, fully remote team in Australia, which is a key hub for recruiting engineering and product talent to continue to advance Jasper’s software.
Leonardo.Ai is an image generation platform similar to OpenAI’s DALL-E, but includes added functionality and tools. With Leonardo.Ai, users can generate images based on text input, but also use editing tools that enable them to finesse the image to their exact liking. Additionally, the platform can render 3D textures, making it useful for architecture renders and game assets.
Carbon Robotics has its headquarters in the United States with several international offices, including its location in Australia. The company develops robots for the agricultural industry. For example, its Carbon LaserWeeder robot controls weed within crop fields without the use of chemical herbicides or manual labor.
