Nearly $100 Million to Be Invested in Quebec AI Projects

Canada invests $98.6M in 23 AI projects to boost industry adoption

“We can’t talk about AI and not be using it,” says AI minister Evan Solomon

SCALE AI Invests $98.6 Million In 23 AI Projects - Manufacturing AUTOMATION

July 11, 2025, Montreal — SCALE AI, Canada’s global innovation cluster in artificial intelligence (AI), announced a total of $98.6 million in investments to support 23 new applied AI projects. While SCALE AI is funding projects from coast to coast, today’s announcement supports initiatives led by businesses in Quebec adopting AI technologies. The projects announced were financed with a 2-to-1 ratio of private investment to public funds, the clus…

Nearly $100 million to be invested in Quebec AI projects

Several tens of millions of dollars will be injected to support some 20 applied artificial intelligence (AI) projects aimed at improving productivity and stimulating the growth of Quebec companies. Scale AI, a Canadian consortium of private companies, research centres, academics and start-ups in the field of AI, announced the selected initiatives in its latest round […]

SCALE AI Announces $98.6M In Investments To Support 23 AI Projects - Canadian Manufacturing

Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario at the Scale AI announcement (CNW Group/Scale AI) MONTREAL — SCALE AI, an innovation cluster involved in artificial intelligence (AI), announced a total of $98.6 million in investments to support 23 new applied AI projects. With this latest round of investments, SCALE AI is trying to a…

Millions poured into AI projects

Reading that generous funding is being poured into Quebec AI projects makes me wonder how much help AI actually needs, and why we’re rushing to make workers obsolete. (Why do I even ask? The answer is, as always, profit.) In tangential news, it’s been noticed that the astronauts pictured in AI illustrations at the Planetarium only have four digits…