AI | BetaKit - Part 27

By Charlize Alcaraz June 26, 2023

Canadian startups Oncoustics, OneCup AI among Google’s first North America-wide cloud accelerator cohort

Google piloted the cloud accelerator in Canada, then extended it to US startups this year.

By Josh Scott June 22, 2023

Altis has worked with UHN, Sunnybrook to develop its cancer imaging database.

By Alex Riehl June 22, 2023

Plus: Oracle’s answer to the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance.

By Josh Scott June 21, 2023

Relay Ventures-backed Train Fitness aims to track weight-lifting without data entry.

By Charlize Alcaraz June 14, 2023

The OpenAI competitor is joined on the list by Nexii, Svante, and fellow Toronto firm Xanadu.

By Josh Scott June 14, 2023

CEO hails agreement as “important milestone,” plans to step down.

By Alex Riehl June 14, 2023

Plus: Canada’s Cohere secures $270M to continue “foundational contributions” to AI.

By Charlize Alcaraz June 12, 2023

While bootstrapped, VanHack said it grew to over 400,000 members.

By Sarah Prevette June 12, 2023

BetaKit’s founder says learning how to prompt an AI engine is not just a tech skill—it’s a life skill.

By Charles Mandel June 9, 2023

Competition Bureau, CRTC, and OPC to collaborate on digital markets, AI, data portability through the Canadian Digital Regulators…

By Charlize Alcaraz June 9, 2023

Bessemer led the round with participation from Bain Capital, Behance founder, among others.

By Josh Scott June 8, 2023

Led by ex-Google researchers, OpenAI rival Cohere aims to help firms adopt generative AI.

By Alex Riehl June 7, 2023

Plus: Canadian AI computing startup Tenstorrent and LG partner to build chips.

By Charles Mandel June 5, 2023

Organizations plan to collaborate on large language models and natural language processing.

By Alex Riehl May 31, 2023

Plus: Ex-OpenAI execs raise $450 million for rival Anthropic.