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Jul 23

. Jul 23

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Big milestone for InvisiGlobe! 🎉🚀

We're excited to share that we've been accepted into the Vector Institute's DaRMoD program.

This opportunity will help us strengthen our machine learning and AI capabilities as we continue building technology focused on making operational systems more reliable and trustworthy.

Grateful for this opportunity and excited for the journey ahead. 🚀

#VectorInstitute #AI #MachineLearning #DeepTech #StartupLife #Innovation #Founder #InvisiGlobe vectorinstitute.ai

Jul 20

. Jul 20

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Anthropic выделила 10 млн CAD на доступ стартапов к Claude 💡

Средства пойдут через три канадских института — Amii, Mila и Vector Institute. Они получат API-кредиты (оплату запросов к модели) для своих команд и стартапов: на разработку продуктов, чатов и автоматизаций на базе Claude.

Важно: это не грант деньгами, а бесплатные вычислительные ресурсы, привязанные к интеграции модели в реальный сервис. Чтобы попасть в программу Anthropic for Startups, стартапу нужно соответствовать условиям и подать заявку.

Для меня здесь главный смысл простой: Anthropic снижает порог входа для первых AI-экспериментов, а бизнес может раньше проверить, окупается ли функция на базе Claude, прежде чем вкладываться в инфраструктуру. Это особенно полезно там, где AI должен не просто “поиграть в чат”, а встроиться в продукт и процессы 🤝

#Anthropic #Claude #VectorInstitute #ИИ #автоматизация #стартапы #нейросети #бизнес

Jul 20

. Jul 20

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Anthropic just dropped $10M into Canadian AI labs and it's a massive vote of confidence 🧠🏩

Claude-maker Anthropic is committing $10 MILLION CAD to 8 Canadian research institutions: Vector Institute (Toronto), Mila (Montréal), Amii (Edmonton), CAMH, CHEO, Université Laval, U of T Data Sciences Institute, and University of Saskatchewan.

each institution gets $1M in Claude API credits. Anthropic won't have control over research directions or findings — it's unrestricted support.

research focus areas: reinforcement learning, AI trust & safety, responsible AI, health, sustainability, multi-agent systems, robotics, children's health outcomes, computational mental health, LLM behavior in varied cultural contexts (including Quebec French and Indigenous languages), biomedical advancements, food/water security, quantum computing.

PLUS: this summer, Amii, Mila, and Vector join the Anthropic for Startups program. Hundreds of Canadian startups affiliated with these institutions get at least $5,000 USD each in API credits.

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah: "Some of the foundations of modern AI came out of Toronto, Montréal, and Edmonton — and so, strikingly, did many of the researchers most committed to making it safe. I was formed by that culture, and I'm proud Anthropic can support the next chapter."

bonus stat from the Anthropic Economic Index: Canadians use Claude at more than 4x the expected rate based on population. Canada ranks 8th globally in Claude.ai use (2.6% of global), and 2nd per-capita behind only the US. BC leads per-person use; Ontario has the largest share of conversations.

source: Anthropic / BetaKit, July 14, 2026
anthropic.com/news/canadian-ai-research

#Anthropic #Claude #CanadianAI #VectorInstitute #Mila #Amii #AIResearch

Jul 16

. Jul 16

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Anthropic je izdvojio 10 miliona kanadskih dolara za osam istraživačkih ustanova u Kanadi, ali pomoć ne stiže u gotovini. Reč je o kreditima za Claude modele, koji se mogu potrošiti samo na pozive ka Anthropicovim modelima, a ne na plate, opremu ili rad na konkurentskim modelima. Među partnerima su instituti Mila, Vector i Amii, dve zdravstvene ustanove i tri univerziteta. Kompanija tvrdi da nema kontrolu nad pravcima istraživanja.

Ceo članak na agenti.rs, link je u bio.

#Anthropic #Claude #AI #vestackaInteligencija #Kanada #AIresearch #Mila #VectorInstitute #LLM #agentiRS #tehnologija

Jul 14

. Jul 14

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Anthropic just committed $10M CAD to Canadian AI research — funding Amii, Mila, and the Vector Institute, the labs that built modern AI. Here's why Claude's maker is betting on Canada, not the US.

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What you will see in this ~49-second breakdown:
Why Anthropic put $10 million into Canadian AI research instead of the US
The usage proof: Canadians use Claude at 4x their population share, ranking 8th worldwide
Alberta's government reviewing 466 million lines of code in about 20 hours with Claude Code
Where the money goes: Edmonton's Amii, Montréal's Mila, Toronto's Vector Institute
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah on why the foundations of modern AI came out of these cities
$5,000 in API credits for startups tied to these institutes

Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/canadian-ai-research

$10 million into Canadian AI. Real investment, or just good PR? Which side are you on?

#Anthropic #Claude #ClaudeCode #AI #AINews #CanadianAI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Amii #Mila #VectorInstitute #ChrisOlah #AIResearch #Canada #AIFunding #Alberta #TechNews #AICoding #AnthropicNews #DIYSmartCode

Jun 15

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Mark with Carla from Global Startups, Manny Kalia of One Eleven, and some incredible entrepreneurs. 🤝🚀

A peek inside Vector, the AI incubator at U of T founded by Geoffrey Hinton himself. 🤖🧠

Another stop with the group at MaRS, one of Toronto's key tech hubs. Fun fact: it's in the same building where insulin was developed. 💉➡️💡 They turned a hospital into a hub for innovation.

Miryam Lazarte really packed the schedule full! 📅✨

#TechBuilders2026 #VectorInstitute #MaRSDiscovery #GlobalStartups #ScintillantVentures #ClassroomStudio

Jun 15

. Jun 15

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Jun 12

. Jun 12

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University of Toronto researchers built a proof-of-concept AI worm that adapts its attack to each device as it spreads — scanning for weaknesses, harvesting credentials, and siphoning compute to fuel the next hop. The unnerving part: it runs on cheap open-weight models, not frontier ones, which lowers the bar for who can pull it off. Demoed in an isolated lab. Source: U of T. #ai #security #cybersecurity #openweights #infosec #vectorinstitute