PM Mark Carney held 2025 budget meeting, proposing more than $1 billion over the next five years to build up Canada’s AI and quantum computing industry
PM Mark Carney held 2025 budget meeting, proposing more than $1 billion over the next five years to build up Canada’s AI and quantum computing industry
My hope is this translates into Canada strengthening its position as a global scientific research hub as the US drains their talent pool.
I wish Canada invested that money into more worthwhile science rather than giving money to more AI scammers
This money is going to be spent at Canadian universities mostly. It’s actually pretty awesome that every canadian researcher can get access to that much compute power with relative little effort. As for nvidia… well they were scammers before they did the AI thing.
The research Im familiar with would benefit more from larger number of CPUs rather than GPUs, which I understand to be the tool of choice for AI. Im sure there are many fields that could benefit from more GPU power but will they actually be able to use these resources or will the resource allocation prioritize “AI” projects?
Actually after looking up whether the Digital Research Alliance if Canada is involved (It seems they are), I feel a lot better about this announcement. My experience with this group has been quite positive and their administration and allocation of research clusters to be pretty good.