Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the $2.4-billion funding boost on April 7. The bulk of the funding will go to infrastructure. The plan also includes $200 million for AI startups and “accelerating AI adoption in critical sectors, such as agriculture, clean technology, health care, and manufacturing,” the government says.
“But I would say the buckets of adoption, safety and compute” — the term used in industry to describe the actual processors and infrastructure needed in vast quantities to support AI — “are strong buckets.” Janssen said that Canada does need “compute within our country to address issues of data sovereignty and certain industries that need to hold their data within the country,” but argued that infrastructure isn’t the most essential problem for Canada because processing solutions are global.
Howard Kurtz hit Karoline Leavitt with a question about the former president likening himself to the late South African leader.