Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research across eight institutions

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Anthropic committed $10M CAD to eight Canadian institutions for AI research. Canada ranks second globally in per-capita Claude usage. Startups get $5K API credits.

Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions to fund work on beneficial and responsible AI applications. The partnerships span Canada’s three leading regional AI institutes, Amii in Edmonton, Mila in Montréal, and the Vector Institute in Toronto, along with children’s hospital CHEO, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Université Laval, the University of Toronto, and the University of Saskatchewan.

The funding covers research areas from reinforcement learning and AI safety to mental health, Indigenous languages, and quantum computing. Mila will use Claude to develop AI assistants that help researchers discover and assess scientific breakthroughs. CAMH’s Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics will build predictive models for mental health treatment and run fairness evaluations of psychiatric AI systems. Université Laval will study how...

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