So, we’ve made it to the end of another fantastic year. As we wrap up 2024, we're thrilled to reflect on some outstanding achievements for Trellis Data! Here are just some of the highlights! We hope your holiday season is filled with relaxation, joy, and the opportunity to recharge. Next year is already shaping up to be exciting, and we can’t wait to deliver more cutting-edge solutions to help our customers succeed.

Trellis Data, a leading provider of sovereign AI solutions for the defence and national security sectors, and Vantiq, the leading platform for creating and operating intelligent systems, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at addressing the growing need for advanced situational awareness and rapid decision-making in modern defence operations. This collaboration will bring cutting-edge generative AI capabilities to the AUKUS partnership, enhancing critical defence infrastructure and response capabilities.

An Australian tool has cut the amount of computing power generative AI (genAI) requires by two thirds, offering promise for a fast-growing industry that faces tough decisions about how to overcome power shortages that could restrict 40 per cent of AI data centres by 2027.

The ICT industry’s pressure on global power grids is proving challenging, with Australia’s more than 200 data centres already consuming an estimated 5 per cent of the country’s electricity and AI-focused data centres expected to push this to 8 percent of supply by the end of the decade.

While the environmental impact of AI has been an ongoing concern, organisations like Trellis Data have been looking for solutions – recently finding one in large language model (LLM) decoders that are over three times faster. Trellis Data has created the world’s fastest decoder, named the Dynamic Depth Decoding (D3) technique. Using speculative decoding, it achieves an average speed increase of 44 per cent compared with the previous fastest decoder. Used on the architecture behind AI systems – LLMs – the D3 technique allows it to generate text approximately 3.16 times faster than standard decoding without limiting accuracy.

Trellis’s Dynamic Depth Decoding (D3) technique uses speculative decoding to achieve an average speed increase of 44% compared with the previous fastest decoder; it is the fastest decoder available in the world today. LLMs are the architecture behind AI systems, and D3 enables them to generate text approximately 3.16 times faster than standard decoding without compromising on accuracy.

AI solutions can give businesses and governments a 75 per cent or more productivity gain in certain tasks. And though it’s still important to keep humans in the loop when implementing and using these solutions, experts say they’re here to stay. “AI is increasingly embedded in the way we do business. As the technology continues to evolve, I think it will become even more tailored for each use case and produce more bespoke results for the end consumer,” Trellis Data’s Tim McLaren says.

We firmly believe that when it comes to AI, one size does not fit all, and it's crucial to consider the unique characteristics that define our communities and culture. The government must carefully consider how generic and homogenous overseas large language models may influence and dilute our policy landscape and way of doing business. As we move forward with AI adoption, it's critical to understand where the data used to train and build these models is coming from and where it's being stored. Ensuring data transparency is essential to building trust and confidence in AI systems.

Learn more about the award winning Trellis Data Universal Translator in the latest edition of Duty First Magazine, now available at Landforces. If you're attending the conference, be sure to pick up your copy and discover how this exciting AI-driven technology can enhance your communication hardware and transform multi-language conversations.

When you’re in a high-stakes or time-critical environment, being able to accurately traverse language barriers could be the difference between life and death. The Trellis Data Universal Translator allows defence forces operating in foreign territories, law enforcement officers patrolling multicultural neighbourhoods and emergency first responders at disaster sites to work more safely and effectively in the field.

Trellis Data has been recognised in the Business & Industry Solution category for our secure, disconnected, ready to go anywhere universal translator technology. The ACT winner will be announced at the ACT State iAwards Ceremony on 12 June.

The CEO of a leading Canberra-based IT company, Trellis Data, is calling for sovereign capability to be a factor in government tender evaluations, saying larger international companies are preferred over local suppliers.

Key to the collaboration is the integration of Trellis Data’s AI-powered solutions with CCL's powerful existing platform. This will offer intelligence officers a toolkit of AI-enhanced digital forensics capabilities to deliver faster evidence-gathering and analysis powered by AI.

The local specialist dubbed him a “homegrown wonder-kid” while he was still in high school. It led to Oscar’s first soiree with AI and machine learning in the form of an onsite internship with the Trellis team. Oscar is now part of a dedicated research team with an exciting career ahead, working in the emerging field of AI.

Trellis Data, offering world-leading secure generative AI and speech-to-text solutions for enterprise, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced a partnership.

Adelaide, 20 February 2024 - Leading machine learning and AI specialists Trellis Data announces its latest expansion with the opening of a new office in Adelaide, South Australia. This development builds on the company's recent successful growth into the United States and marks a significant milestone in its strategy to deliver sovereign AI solutions to the Australian government and defence clients.

Trellis Data is a global leader in improving the accuracy of speech-to-text platforms. Its bespoke product, Trellis Secure Speech, also makes the technology accessible across a variety of languages.

Generative AI has seen some phenomenal advancements in recent years with platforms such as ChatGPT setting records for user base growth. But for several potential users, there’s one big problem with generative models.

Most generative AI does not have a built-in accountability mechanism, and without understanding the sources and decision-making processes behind their results, it’s hard to trust them.

Australia’s agriculture sector faces constant threats from pests introduced through the country’s ports. To address this challenge, the department commissioned Trellis Data to develop an AI-based surveillance system capable of scanning all incoming shipping containers.

In an era of increased anxiety around national security, cyber security and the nation’s sovereignty, it’s comforting to know a homegrown company is leading the charge on a secure version for the country’s more sensitive industries.

Trellis Data executives James Meszes and James Simonian talk with Toby Halligan, Media Adviser for Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury Andrew Leigh at the tech show at Parliament House. The company is one of many Canberra success stories.