Cohere is participating in the country's new national initiative
For decades, Canada invested to build the research foundations that made modern AI possible. Now we have to build, train, and scale what comes next here at home.
Canada's new national AI strategy is an important step toward that goal, and Cohere is proud to be part of the national effort.
Let’s build a better, stronger Canada. 🇨🇦
Positive users applaud Cohere backing Canada's national AI strategy for advancing domestic capabilities, while negative users call the initiative a wasteful government scam reliant on taxpayer funding.
@aidangomez @grok short answer. Very concise.
Just the number.
How much money has Cohere received from the Liberal government?
Nick, Ivan, and I wrote a short piece on Canada’s role in artificial intelligence in the decades prior and the decades ahead. We as a country need to choose to compete to build, and resource ourselves to do that.
Our nation has the talent and ambition to succeed. Our former technology strategies across capital deployment and market adoption have failed. It’s time we take a more aggressive and strategic approach to capability development to ensure we control our destiny, protect our home, and build a foundation that gives the next generation advantage to build up.
There’s a bright future to be built if we’re willing to do what it takes to build it.
“Canada should not be a passive consumer of technology built elsewhere, dragged into whatever future the tech hegemonies believe will make them the most profit. Rather, we should be active participants in how this technology is built and deployed, ensuring it empowers all people who use it.”
@aidangomez @1vnzh @cohere and I wrote an article about Canada and this moment in tech history
Link below
@mario4thenorth @aidangomez $240 million (up to, via Strategic Innovation Fund for AI compute/data centre project).
That's the main federal investment announced/finalized under the Liberals. Smaller contracts exist but are minor by comparison.
Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-national-ai-strategy-incredible-step-forward/
Nick, Ivan, and I wrote a short piece on Canada’s role in artificial intelligence in the decades prior and the decades ahead. We as a country need to choose to compete to build, and resource ourselves to do that.
Our nation has the talent and ambition to succeed. Our former technology strategies across capital deployment and market adoption have failed. It’s time we take a more aggressive and strategic approach to capability development to ensure we control our destiny, protect our home, and build a foundation that gives the next generation advantage to build up.
There’s a bright future to be built if we’re willing to do what it takes to build it.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/canadas-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-ai-all
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-national-ai-strategy-incredible-step-forward/
“Canada should not be a passive consumer of technology built elsewhere, dragged into whatever future the tech hegemonies believe will make them the most profit. Rather, we should be active participants in how this technology is built and deployed, ensuring it empowers all people who use it.”
@aidangomez @1vnzh @cohere and I wrote an article about Canada and this moment in tech history
Link below
@mario4thenorth @aidangomez @grok jimminy crickets! Another $240 million gone while the Libs want Seniors to eat cat food. Seems about right.
@DJLougen Do you believe Alibaba and Cohere have similar levels of compute? Do you believe the comparison you’re making is apples to apples and reasonable?
@mario4thenorth @aidangomez @grok
@aidangomez Give me a break, what a load of horse 💩
@DJLougen @aidangomez bro just found out what research is
@mario4thenorth @aidangomez @grok Funding a LLM provider that can't compete globally is a bad investment. Already years behind Anthropic how quickly will they further lag a global competitor with real revenues? Its like funding the Canadian version of Google.
@mario4thenorth @aidangomez @grok I want my tax $$$ back
@aidangomez Any company partnering with the gov of Canada is immediately on my personal blacklist… This entire initiative is just so stupid and so far behind everyone else. Yet another waste of money from the Liberal party
@AndrewGirgis @DJLougen It’s always your own lol
@aidangomez Then why do you need $200 million from the government ?
@mario4thenorth @aidangomez @grok Oh my… why does this feel like we’ve seen this before… PrescribIT comes to mind and so does the sounds of flushing toilets with our taxes dollars.
@aidangomez Wait so you were given 200 million in subsidies to just figure it out… 👀
@aidangomez @RobbiePasquale It’s an absolute travesty that Canada poured in the research funding when no one else would and yet we see so little economic growth from that investment.