Canada: A new fund dedicated to artificial intelligence to accelerate applied research capacity - Actu IA

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) is an independent funding corporation. In January, Jeff White, its CEO, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for ACOA, and Jenica Atwin, Member of Parliament for Fredericton, officially launched the new "NBIF Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fund". The objective of the Fund is to bring together academic researchers and companies to collaborate. New Brunswick is a Canadian province of about 750,000 inhabitants, located south of Quebec, on the Atlantic coast. Artificial intelligence is, as in Canada (and all developed countries), considered a major strategic asset for economic growth, employment and innovation.