U of T AI Infrastructure receives $42.5 million in federal funding

The cutting-edge artificial intelligence infrastructure at the University of Toronto will receive $42.5 million in federal funding to support Canadian researchers advancing health care, basic sciences, engineering and humanities, among other fields.

The investment – ​​announced Friday at U of T by Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister Responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, is funded by the Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy and delivered through the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s National AI Compute – Rapid Deployment initiative. The initiative aims to meet the growing demand for high-performance AI computing across the country.

This expanded computing infrastructure builds on last year’s $52 million upgrade to SciNet…