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As part of Budget 2024, the Government of Canada announced a $2 billion investment in a new Canadian AI Sovereign Compute Strategy and AI Compute Access Fund that aims to provide Canadian researchers and AI companies with the tools needed to be competitive in a rapidly advancing global AI landscape. A public consultation on how these monies should be spent concluded late last week. 

This investment is timely as Canada – a global leader in AI – is currently the only G7 country that does not have a supercomputer ranked in the Top 50. What is considered the “AI factory” to support AI innovation and research, new and sovereign supercomputing infrastructure would allow Canada to secure a globally competitive position by ensuring that both industry and researchers have access to advanced and affordable infrastructure at home. Ģ����ý’s researcher and expert in Secure Supercomputing and AI Exascale Infrastructure, believes part of the government’s investment should be used to build a new innovation supercomputer in Canada to supercharge productivity.

Grant is available to speak to the media about why a new supercomputer is needed, and how Canada could use supercomputing to position itself as a global leader in supporting both research and industry to advance work at the forefront of medicine, AI, and climate science.  

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