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Technology independence, built here

We’re building it in Melbourne, starting with Matilda and the cluster it runs on, and our own cloud comes next.

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Our story

Started in Melbourne, late 2024.

The people, tools and funding to build AI independently were hard to find in Australia, so we brought them together in Melbourne.

On 12 Jun 2026 a US government order suspended foreign access to a frontier lab’s newest models, and Matilda kept running, because Maincode is Australian-owned and doesn’t rely on models hosted in the US.

Milestones

What we’ve released, and the post behind each.

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  1. 76% Maincoder-1B On HumanEval at 1B parameters, open weights
  2. ~10ktok/s MC-2 benchmarks Qwen3.6 35B on one node, 10k-token prompts
  3. 1.3× Our own engine, in Rust Faster 8-GPU all-reduce than RCCL at its best
  4. Live Matilda, in public beta On the web and the App Store
  5. 5tests Australian-made AI is independent AI For any AI you depend on
  6. MC-3 And our own cloud Its first four sites

Principles

Seven principles we work by.

We published them in April 2025, in these words, and the post explains each one.

  1. 01

    Move humans forward

    Create technology that improves humankind.

  2. 02

    Do the hard thing

    Make timeless choices.

  3. 03

    Take point

    Be excited to do what others won’t.

  4. 04

    It’s 2AM in the lab

    Thrive on challenges.

  5. 05

    Stay foolish

    Know just enough to not know better.

  6. 06

    High voltage

    Optimise for full power.

  7. 07

    Ship

    Deliver stuff that matters.

Why principles matter

Come and build it

MC-3 and our own cloud need more people.

Australia’s technology independence gets built by engineers and researchers who choose to do this work here, in Melbourne.

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