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CanadianAI: Sequoia leads a US$60M round for Toronto-built Mecka, and OSFI eyes AI rules for banks
And more on Zeta Global buying Senso, Cohere’s new Ottawa office, and AI data-centre fights in Edmonton and New Brunswick.
Oct 13
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: Canada wants in on Europe’s AI contracts, and Carney picks his AI advisers
And more on Cohere opening up to rival models, Clio buying an AI company for judges, and deepfake detectors that miss half the fakes.
Oct 6
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: $300M for Bengio’s LawZero and Canada’s largest venture fund ever
And more on Cohere signing with Aleph Alpha, Altis Labs’ US$25M Series A, and a Mila-Mozilla open-source AI stack.
Sep 22
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: $50B AI data centre in Saskatchewan and five AI startups raise
And more on Ultimarii's Series A, a US$525M Canadian AI growth fund, the National AI Literacy Initiative, and a Mila benchmark that demonstrates…
Sep 15
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: Six AI startups got funded this week, and Ottawa's data centre principles
And more on OpenAI's second wave of Tumbler Ridge lawsuits, Patrick Pichette's new federal agency, and SOCAN suing Suno.
Sep 8
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: The Big Six show their AI math, and Ottawa poaches 48 researchers from US schools
And more on Kepler’s compute in orbit, Alberta’s moratorium fight, and Cohere’s new Parse model.
Sep 1
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: One of Canada's largest-ever seed rounds, and Anthropic wants gigawatts in Canada
And more on Quebec's AI election code, Alberta's angry town halls, and two East Coast rounds we missed.
Aug 25
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: Ontario charges data centres full freight, and Convictional gives the money back
And four new funding rounds including Peripheral’s US$8.7M raise, the CCI report on early exits, and Canadians souring on data-centre incentives.
Aug 18
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: AMD buys Taalas, and Alberta pitches data centres as digital refineries
And more on Shopify’s monster quarter, a $2.1B AI hit at TELUS, and a record month for AI-hardware imports.
Aug 11
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI: A month of Canadian AI in one issue, an AI takes the CEO seat
And more on Stathera’s US$55M Series B, a Fields Medalist joining OpenAI, and a record Canadian showing at one of the “Big Three” AI research…
Aug 4
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Raif Barbaros
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CanadianAI:A US$220M contract for sovereign AI, and Qualcomm circles a Toronto company
And more on Clio's training blitz for 25,000 lawyers, crop sensing AI, and prize wining surgical AI.
Jun 23
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Raif Barbaros
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