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Montréal AI research institute founded by Yoshua Bengio, one of Canada's three national AI institutes.
Prime Minister Mark Carney named 13 advisers to an AI council on October 2, with homegrown champions and sovereign infrastructure among its five priorities. It cannot spend or legislate, so its sway over procurement depends on ministers acting on what it recommends.
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Both governments funded Yoshua Bengio's safe-by-design institute at Montreal's ALL IN, where Cohere agreed terms with Germany's Aleph Alpha and OpenAI's managing director called Canada an obvious place for a data centre.
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Mozilla put up the first $5 million and Hypertec added $1 million for first-year Canadian deployments on its own hardware. The published contracts are the part that would let anyone swap the pieces.
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QuiverAI now sells the canvas and the developer API around its SVG models, and the token pricing it published puts the cost of a design session on how many times you refine the file.
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LawZero, the Montreal non-profit Yoshua Bengio founded last year, says the two governments' grants will pay for staff and for the compute behind Scientist AI, whose first job is watching other models for harmful actions.
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Yoshua Bengio built LawZero to do frontier safety research outside a commercial lab. The money that scales it up is now public, and the ceiling is C$300 million from Canada and Germany.
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute will develop and deploy Canada's National AI Literacy Initiative over the coming year, on programming modelled after courses it has offered publicly for the past decade.
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