Canada’s $2-billion AI computing plan could help foreign tech giants: Globe
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AI researchers and entrepreneurs could move abroad to gain access to affordable compute.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau $2-billion sovereign computing strategy is designed to help Canadian firms and researchers get access to sophisticated computer chips such as graphics processing units (GPUs) and other equipment—known in the industry as “compute”—for their AI projects, but as the Globe and Mail’s Joe Castaldo reports, there are few options aside from U.S. companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google for the cloud computing services required to build and run AI models. Canada’s investment in public infrastructure has lagged other countries, and demand is outpacing supply, so as a result, some experts have warned that AI researchers and entrepreneurs could move abroad to gain access to affordable compute, according to the Globe report.
