Outback Yak Bloghttps://outbackyak.io/blog/Engineering, AI research and stories from Outback Yak.en-auOn the conference floor with anatomediaPLUShttps://outbackyak.io/blog/anatomediaplus-at-ifaa-melbourne/https://outbackyak.io/blog/anatomediaplus-at-ifaa-melbourne/A conversation at IFAA in Melbourne, where the people building medical learning tools meet the people teaching with them.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTMeeting Hai Helper’s community at the disability expohttps://outbackyak.io/blog/hai-helper-at-melbourne-disability-expo/https://outbackyak.io/blog/hai-helper-at-melbourne-disability-expo/Gaurav joined the Hai Helper team in Melbourne to hear from the people the app is being built for.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTTaking MEKSI to Melbourne's medical studentshttps://outbackyak.io/blog/meksi-melbourne-medical-students-conference/https://outbackyak.io/blog/meksi-melbourne-medical-students-conference/Joining Dr. Jawahar Thomas at the University of Melbourne MD Students Conference to talk about MEKSI and medical learning.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpen-weights AI, in a room full of developershttps://outbackyak.io/blog/open-weights-ai-at-gdg-melbourne/https://outbackyak.io/blog/open-weights-ai-at-gdg-melbourne/Bishal’s talk at GDG Melbourne’s Build with AI event: code on screen and a chance to explore open-weights AI together.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWe used one of our products to grow anotherhttps://outbackyak.io/blog/postme-kchakhabar-first-28-days/https://outbackyak.io/blog/postme-kchakhabar-first-28-days/Postme handled distribution for K cha khabar. In the first 28 days, the three channels recorded about 48,000 views without paid promotion.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTNepNewsCluster: Benchmarking 13 LLMs on Bilingual Nepali News Consolidationhttps://outbackyak.io/blog/nepnewscluster-benchmarking-13-llms-on-bilingual-nepali-news/https://outbackyak.io/blog/nepnewscluster-benchmarking-13-llms-on-bilingual-nepali-news/We evaluated 13 frontier and open-weight large language models on multi-document Nepali–English news consolidation across 107 real story clusters. Claude Sonnet 4.6 won decisively, Gemma 4 31B at $0.0005 per call beat models 50× its price, and test-time reasoning surprised us in opposite directions on two otherwise-comparable models.Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:00 GMTOutback Yak is now listed on National AI Centre’s AI Directoryhttps://outbackyak.io/blog/outback-yak-listed-on-national-ai-directory/https://outbackyak.io/blog/outback-yak-listed-on-national-ai-directory/We are proud to be listed on the National AI Centre's newly launched AI Directory, a platform showcasing Australia's AI capabilities across industries and technologies.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:00:00 GMTEmpowering NDIS Participants with Multi-Agent Retrieval AIhttps://outbackyak.io/blog/showcase-empowering-ndis-participants-with-multi-agent-retrieval-ai/https://outbackyak.io/blog/showcase-empowering-ndis-participants-with-multi-agent-retrieval-ai/Large Language Models (LLMs) are impressive at generating human-like text, but in real-world applications, fluency isn’t enough.Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:32:00 GMTHow we helped achieve a $100K/year saving in cloud costs by switching cloud providershttps://outbackyak.io/blog/showcase-cloud-migration-aws-to-gcp-cost-savings/https://outbackyak.io/blog/showcase-cloud-migration-aws-to-gcp-cost-savings/Whatever you do, it's always beneficial to have the right tools at your disposal. For some workloads, right tools can mean significant savings in cloud costsFri, 01 Dec 2023 15:39:00 GMTTransforming Medical Education with AI: MEKSI's Journey to a State-of-the-Art Chatbothttps://outbackyak.io/blog/showcase-implementing-ai-in-medical-training/https://outbackyak.io/blog/showcase-implementing-ai-in-medical-training/Building AI-supported medical learning with MEKSI, a Sydney-based startupFri, 01 Dec 2023 11:39:00 GMT