Harvest Venture Builders adopts AI focus with new climate and energy vertical
Leaders from energy, FinTech sectors appointed to support Harvest’s new vertical.
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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.
Altis Labs closes $7.9 million CAD to evaluate cancer treatments using AI
Altis has worked with UHN, Sunnybrook to develop its cancer imaging database.
A|I: The AI Times – Cohere is on Bessemer’s list, D-Wave is moving execs to the US
Plus: Oracle’s answer to the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance.
Train Fitness closes $2.5 million USD to expand automatic workout-tracking app for strength training
Relay Ventures-backed Train Fitness aims to track weight-lifting without data entry.
Cohere is the highest ranking Canadian startup on Bessemer’s top 100 deeptech companies
The OpenAI competitor is joined on the list by Nexii, Svante, and fellow Toronto firm Xanadu.
Automotive software maker LeddarTech inks SPAC deal to go public on Nasdaq
CEO hails agreement as “important milestone,” plans to step down.
A|I: The AI Times – Microsoft is moving top AI experts from China to Canada
Plus: Canada’s Cohere secures $270M to continue “foundational contributions” to AI.
Tech talent-sourcing network VanHack secures $3 million for global expansion
While bootstrapped, VanHack said it grew to over 400,000 members.
AI prompting Is the new coding for kids
BetaKit’s founder says learning how to prompt an AI engine is not just a tech skill—it’s a life skill.
Pick up the pace: federal agencies form new body aimed at collaborating on issues related to tech innovations
Competition Bureau, CRTC, and OPC to collaborate on digital markets, AI, data portability through the Canadian Digital Regulators…
EvenUp raises $50.5 million in Clio-backed round for AI that turns raw files into legal documents for personal injury lawyers
Bessemer led the round with participation from Bain Capital, Behance founder, among others.
Cohere announces $270-million USD Series C from Inovia, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce
Led by ex-Google researchers, OpenAI rival Cohere aims to help firms adopt generative AI.
A|I: The AI Times – Public letter escalation: Bengio & Hinton sign another warning
Plus: Canadian AI computing startup Tenstorrent and LG partner to build chips.
Vietnam’s FPT and Quebec’s Mila renew three-year strategic partnership, vow to practice responsible AI
Organizations plan to collaborate on large language models and natural language processing.