Data sovereignty, behavioural learning and the commercial architecture that determines whether Australia exports food or training data

The AgriLLM thesis produces a clear investment map once you think in terms of the farm operating system stack. Every operating system has layers: perception, data infrastructure, reasoning, robotics, applications and interface. The investable companies are building one or more of these layers. The vulnerable incumbents are the ones sitting in the middle of the stack - providing translation, advisory or single-function services that AgriLLM compresses or eliminates.

ow AgriLLM, digital twins and agentic AI will turn Australian agriculture into an intelligent system - and why RDCs, corporates, startups and growers all have a role in designing it

State of Play on AI: What the Last 12 Months Have Changed for Agrifood As we approach the end of 2025, it feels like an appropriate moment to pause and take stock of how far AI has progressed — not in theory, but in practice. At Artesian’s inaugural Yield agrifood summit, two sessions in particular crystallised this shift. Dawid Naude (Pathfindr) and Vinod Bijlani (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) offered complementary perspectives on where AI is heading, what has materially chang

A recently released white paper, Rethinking Venture Capital for the African Market , makes an argument that resonates deeply with our work at Artesian: the Silicon Valley playbook for venture capital simply doesn’t translate to operationally intensive, real-economy sectors. What’s striking is how closely the paper’s conclusions align with the structural problems we’ve been designing around for years. The mismatch between traditional VC and sectors like agrifood, health, mini

Last week in Melbourne, Artesian hosted the inaugural Yield agrifood innovation summit — a working forum designed to bridge capital, research, and on-farm adoption across Australia’s agricultural ecosystem. Over two days, more than 80 leaders from RDCs, DAFF, corporates, growers, universities, startups and investors joined for open, practical and future-focused discussions about the opportunities and challenges shaping Australian agriculture. From the outset, the mission of