Cohere reports progress on its C$4 billion 2024–2031 Canada AI plan, 1,500 jobs
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Cohere released progress on a plan to put C$4 billion into research and development and AI facilities in Canada from 2024 to 2031 and to create more than 1,500 jobs — it said about 1,000 of those are technical roles in AI research, engineering and product development, and that it would create more than 250 paid student positions by 2029. It said new partnerships with the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo, added to its existing relationships with Amii, Vector and Mila, form a network of universities and research institutes, and that through Bell AI Fabric and a C$309 million GPU cloud partnership it runs its own models on facilities inside Canada.
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It is a case of sovereign AI beginning to be spoken of in the language of industrial policy, bundling people, facilities and commercialization rather than model sovereignty. Cohere explained that it is spending on closing a gap, pointing out that Canada's national AI strategy targets a 3% increase in gross domestic product and up to 250,000 AI-related jobs by 2031, while only 12% of Canadian businesses said in 2025 that they use AI to produce goods and services. The amounts and the job counts are the company's own plan through 2031, and it did not separately state how much has been spent so far.
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