Amii secures $3 million from PrairiesCan to fuel AI adoption in the Prairies
Alberta AI hub aims to give SMBs tools and knowledge to leverage AI.
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DIGITAL invests $10.5 million across four AI projects from healthtech startups
Projects from Swift Medical, RxPx, Gotcare, and AlayaCare carry a collective $26-million value.
Forma.ai’s first acquisition nets fellow Toronto sales software startup SeaMonster
With SeaMonster, Forma.ai aims to help companies provide activity-based sales incentives.
A|I: The AI Times – AI is jeopardizing Microsoft’s climate goals
Plus: OpenAI hemorrhages safety-conscious leaders, including Canadian Ilya Sutskever.
CoLab raises $28.6-million CAD Series B to grow its team and incorporate AI
CoLab CEO Adam Keating said he expects to grow the team from 86 to 125 employees by the end of the year.
Gradient Ventures’ Darian Shirazi on where AI value will accrue
A wide-angle view on the state of AI from the VC firm backing Lambda and CentML.
Q1 Canadian VC funding posts mixed results as PE market rebounds, CVCA reports
Pre-seed, seed-stage VC funding declines as late-stage investment continues descent.
Gatik secures $41 million CAD from Isuzu Motors as pair expands partnership to build autonomous trucks
Japanese automaker and tech firm with Canadian ties gear up to deliver driverless trucking.
ThinkLabs AI spins out of GE with $6.8 million CAD to simplify electrical grid management
Opus One founder aims to help modernize the grid with his latest cleantech startup.
A|I: The AI Times – The Toronto startup using quantum chemistry to clean the world’s water
Plus: Vector awards $2 million in AI scholarships for top Ontario graduate students.
Bōde secures new funding to streamline home sales with AI
Backed by Thin Air Labs, Calgary-based startup receives $4 million in equity and debt to scale platform.
The best place to aim AI? The mirror
How smart businesses use generative AI to improve their own performance.
Vantage points: Cohere’s Ivan Zhang on making Canada the place to scale
“Right now, it’s very hard to stay in Canada if you want to be the best in the world at something.”
WATCH: Vantage points panel with four Canadian tech founders
Leaders from Cohere, MedEssist, Transformer Lab, and Socratica shared their stories at BetaKit Town Hall.
A|I: The AI Times – Why Nvidia’s CEO handpicked this U of T professor
Plus: A mysterious “gpt-2” chatbot came online and vanished just as quickly.