With world-class capabilities and talent, Canada has demonstrated great leadership in artificial intelligence (AI). To further support Canada’s advancement of AI, investment in computing, data and software infrastructure is critical. Today, the Government of Canada announced that $2.4 billion in the upcoming federal budget will be assigned to help build such AI capacity in the country. The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the “Alliance”) was pleased to be part of the announcement and looks forward to supporting the government and research community as the investments move forward.
“Canadian AI researchers need digital infrastructure to foster ingenuity and remove barriers to innovation,” said George Ross, CEO, Digital Research Alliance of Canada. “Investments in AI and compute capacity in Canada, such as the one announced today, will accelerate transformative scientific research, strengthen the national digital research infrastructure ecosystem and bolster economic growth.”
The Alliance is currently in partnership with the Government of Canada, as well as the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the three national AI institutes to implement the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy. Through this strategy, the Alliance is providing additional compute capacity for AI researchers across Canada to support the objectives of the strategy.
Ensuring Canada has the technological infrastructure to support AI acceleration will unlock new potential, enable new discoveries and increase economic growth. For more on the Government of Canada’s investment announcement, visit the following link: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2024/04/07/securing-canadas-ai-advantage
About the Alliance
The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) works to transform how research computing and research data is organized, managed, stored and used across all academic disciplines. We work with other ecosystem partners and stakeholders across the country to help provide Canadian researchers with the support they need for cutting-edge research and innovation across all disciplines. In practice, this means integrating, funding and supporting the infrastructure and activities required for advanced research computing (ARC), research data management (RDM) and research software (RS) – the three pillars of Canada’s digital research infrastructure (DRI).