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Latest announcements
- VECTOR INSTITUTE AND IPON DEEPEN PARTNERSHIP TO ACCELERATE IP PROTECTION FOR ONTARIO’S AI INNOVATORS | (FR)
- NEW STUDY REVEALS AI’S $100B ECONOMIC IMPACT ACROSS CANADA, WITH ONTARIO LEADING THE CHARGE
- ICTC AND VECTOR INSTITUTE PARTNER TO ACCELERATE CANADA’S AI TALENT PIPELINE
- GOVERNMENT OF CANADA CELEBRATES AI AND TECH INNOVATION IN TORONTO | (FR)
- ONTARIO’S AI ECOSYSTEM: FUELING REAL ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH RECORD NUMBER OF JOBS AND PRIVATE INVESTMENTS
- VECTOR INSTITUTE AWARDS UP TO $2.1 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS TO ONTARIO’S TOP AI GRADUATE STUDENTS | (FR)
- VECTOR INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF GLENDA CRISP AS PRESIDENT AND CEO
- VECTOR INSTITUTE UNVEILS COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF LEADING AI MODELS | (FR)
- CEO UPDATE
- UNILEVER DEEPENS COMMITMENT TO AI INNOVATION THROUGH VECTOR INSTITUTE COLLABORATION | (FR)
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2024
- CANADIAN AI JOB MARKET SHIFTING, FAVOURING SPECIALIZED, IN-DEMAND SKILLS | (FR)
- THREE NEW CANADA CIFAR AI CHAIRS APPOINTED AT THE VECTOR INSTITUTE
- CIBC FURTHERS ITS COMMITMENT TO AI LEARNING AND RESEARCH THROUGH THE VECTOR INSTITUTE
- WORLD-LEADING AI TRUST AND SAFETY EXPERTS PUBLISH MAJOR PAPER ON MANAGING AI RISKS IN THE JOURNAL SCIENCE
- VECTOR INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES NEARLY $2 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TOP ONTARIO AI GRADUATE STUDENTS
- THE VECTOR INSTITUTE AND BE NODE UNITE TO DEVELOP GLOBAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- MERCK CANADA ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION WITH VECTOR INSTITUTE
- TIAP, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, AND VECTOR INSTITUTE ENTER INTO NEW COLLABORATION
2023
- VECTOR INSTITUTE PARTNERS WITH WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ON RESPONSIBLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH INSIGHTS
- KIDS HELP PHONE AND THE VECTOR INSTITUTE ANNOUNCE IMPORTANT PARTNERSHIP FOR ENHANCED HUMAN-CENTRIC INNOVATIONS FOR YOUTH E-MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FROM COAST TO COAST TO COAST
- ONTARIO GOVERNMENT GRANTS $27 MILLION TO THE VECTOR INSTITUTE FOR DRIVING INNOVATION, FOSTERING AI TALENT, AND PROPELLING ECONOMIC GROWTH
- PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE VECTOR INSTITUTE
- TOP ONTARIO STUDENTS PURSUING GRADUATE STUDIES IN AI RECEIVE NEARLY $2 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS FROM VECTOR
- VECTOR AND COMMUNITECH PARTNER TO HELP CANADIAN SMES LEVERAGE THE POWER OF AI
- VECTOR INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES TONY GAFFNEY AS NEW PRESIDENT AND CEO
2022
- VECTOR INSTITUTE NAMES BEN DAVIES AS ITS NEW CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
- THE VECTOR INSTITUTE INTRODUCES THE VECTOR AI20 FOR 2023
- AI ECOSYSTEM IN ONTARIO ON A STRONG GROWTH TRAJECTORY
- VECTOR INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES CEO TRANSITION PLAN; BOARD INITIATES COMPREHENSIVE SEARCH FOR SUCCESSOR
- CIFAR ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR SECOND PHASE OF THE PAN-CANADIAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY
- ONTARIO STRENGTHENS ITS AI ECOSYSTEM LEADERSHIP POSITION BY EXTENDING PARTNERSHIPS WITH FOUNDING INDUSTRY SPONSORS
- MOU BETWEEN CIFAR, THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA AND CANADA’S THREE NATIONAL AI INSTITUTES OPENS DOORS TO COLLABORATION ACROSS SECTORS
- THE VECTOR INSTITUTE ENTERS FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION TO ENHANCE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
- 2022 ONTARIO BUDGET INCLUDES $107M FOR CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES
- VECTOR INSTITUTE INTRODUCES A SMART HEALTH INITIATIVE TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN HEALTHCARE
- NORCAT COLLABORATES WITH VECTOR INSTITUTE TO UNLOCK THE POWER OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE GLOBAL MINING INDUSTRY
- USING AI FOR GOOD: TELUS AND VECTOR INSTITUTE PARTNER TO REDUCE CLIMATE IMPACTS FROM DATA CENTRES WITH NEW ENERGY OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM
- ACCELERATING INNOVATION IN HEALTH: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM AND THE VECTOR INSTITUTE TO COLLABORATE ON AI
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA REAFFIRMS VECTOR INSTITUTE SPONSORSHIP THROUGH 2027
- BELL ENTERS INTO A STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT WITH THE VECTOR INSTITUTE TO ADVANCE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
- TD BUILDS ON COMMITMENT TO ADVANCE AI WITH EARLY RENEWAL OF VECTOR INSTITUTE PARTNERSHIP
2021
- NEW PROGRAM AIMS TO ACCELERATE AI-FUELED GROWTH FOR SMALL-AND-MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES
- ACCELERATING INNOVATION AND GROWTH: OMERS AND THE VECTOR INSTITUTE TO COLLABORATE ON AI
- VECTOR SPONSORSHIP FROM NVIDIA RENEWED THROUGH 2027
- VECTOR CO-FOUNDER RAQUEL URTASUN RAISES $100 MILLION FOR SELF-DRIVING STARTUP WAABI
- GEOFFREY HINTON RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE FROM UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RENEWS PAN-CANADIAN AI STRATEGY
- VECTOR COLLABORATES WITH PHASE AI ON NEW CAREER SKILLS PROGRAM
- VECTOR INSTITUTE RELEASES FIRST ANNUAL ONTARIO AI SNAPSHOT
2020
- VECTOR WELCOMES 2020 COHORT OF FACULTY AFFILIATES
- VECTOR INSTITUTE ESTABLISHES NEW AI ENGINEERING TEAM TO RAMP UP APPLIED AI FOR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
- UNVEILING THE VECTOR INSTITUTE’S NEW THREE-YEAR STRATEGY
- VECTOR PARTNERS WITH MICHENER INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AT UHN TO EMBED AI INTO HEALTHCARE PRACTICE
- JANE PHILPOTT NAMED SPECIAL ADVISOR OF THE ONTARIO HEALTH DATA PLATFORM WHICH VECTOR IS SUPPORTING WITH COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE AND DATA SCIENCE EXPERTISE
- VECTOR SCHOLARSHIP IN AI ANNOUNCEMENT
- TORONTO STAR: TORONTO-BASED HEART HEALTH APP MEDLY HELPS PATIENTS MONITOR SYMPTOM CHANGES AT HOME
2019
- MITACS TO COLLABORATE WITH VECTOR INSTITUTE TO ACCELERATE PLACEMENT OF AI INTERNS INTO CANADIAN INDUSTRY
- VECTOR INSTITUTE APPOINTS EIGHT NEW FACULTY MEMBERS, ANNOUNCES PLANS TO RECRUIT THREE NEW FACULTY IN DEEP LEARNING WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
- VECTOR INSTITUTE NAMES 29 NEW FACULTY AFFILIATES
- LEAGUE ANNOUNCES NEW AGREEMENT WITH THE VECTOR INSTITUTE
- VECTOR INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES SECOND COHORT OF VECTOR SCHOLARSHIP IN AI RECIPIENTS
- VECTOR INSTITUTE’S CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR, DR. GEOFFREY HINTON, RECEIVES ACM A.M. TURING AWARD ALONGSIDE DR. YOSHUA BENGIO AND DR. YANN LECUN
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2017
- GEOFFREY HINTON NAMED AMONG BLOOMBERG’S LIST OF 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2017
- GOVERNMENT OF ONTARIO COMMITS $30 MILLION TO VECTOR TO ACCELERATE GROWTH IN THE NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL APPLIED MASTERS’ GRADUATES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- VECTOR INSTITUTE APPOINTS DR. GARTH GIBSON AS PRESIDENT AND CEO
- TORONTO STAR: NEW INSTITUTE AIMS TO MAKE TORONTO AN ‘INTELLECTUAL CENTRE’ OF AI CAPABILITY
- GLOBE AND MAIL: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS THE FUTURE, AND CANADA CAN SEIZE IT
- REUTERS: CANADIAN GOVERNMENT, BUSINESSES BACK $150 MILLION ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE
- BNN: CANADA BETS BIG ON AI WITH AI INSTITUTE
- BBC: VECTOR INSTITUTE IS JUST THE LATEST IN CANADA’S AI EXPANSION
Media mentions
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- The Globe and Mail | ‘Potentially very dangerous’: Nobel winner Hinton wants AI minister to regulate the tech
- Betakit | “Light, tight, right” regulation: Minister Evan Solomon unpacks how Canada plans to support domestic AI and quantum computing
- The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett | Godfather of AI (Podcast)
- Canadian Family Offices | Large language models are the human ‘face’ of the AI revolution. But are they ready for prime time?
- MarTech Edge | Ethical AI & Marketing: Insights from Kari Clarke-Zemnickis
- Toronto Star | Carney government balancing AI regulation against the promise to unlock its potential
- CBC Maritime Noon | On the phone-in: Experts answer questions about artificial intelligence
- The Quantum Insider | Study Introduces an AI Agent That Automates Quantum Chemistry Tasks From Natural Language Prompts
- Betakit | Cohere Labs head calls “unreliable” AI leaderboard rankings a “crisis” in the field
- The Globe and Mail | In a world of AI advances, soft skills can set you apart and get you the job
- The Globe and Mail | Canada’s Best Executives 2025
- Yale Environment 360 | A.I. Is Quietly Powering a Revolution in Weather Prediction
- Toronto Life | “Everyone should have a voice in tech”: Machine learning researcher Colin Raffel explains his decision to move from North Carolina to Toronto
- The Globe and Mail | Protect ‘valuable’ Canadian health data from Donald Trump’s AI aspirations, experts urge
- The Logic | This new test shows the pros and cons of major AI models
- Betakit | Vector Institute hires ex-TD, Thomson Reuters leader Glenda Crisp as president and CEO
- InfoWorld | Vector Institute aims to clear up confusion about AI model performance
- Betakit | Leaders discuss the right speed for innovation and regulation at Remarkable AI conference
- Inside Precision Medicine | AI in Healthcare: Boon or Burden?
- Global News | Trudeau says powering AI without compromising climate change is a G7 priority
- Toronto Star | Should you trust ChatGPT and DeepSeek with your data? Here’s what the experts say
- The Hub | ‘Canadian companies should seize the moment’: Cameron Schuler on AI’s deep history and bright future in Canada
- Toronto Star | Can human researchers flourish in the age of intelligent machines?
- Drug Discovery World | Quantum computing approach targets ‘undruggable’ protein
- BNN Bloomberg | How researchers are using quantum computing to target an ‘undruggable’ cancer protein
- Canadian Family Offices | Family offices may be falling behind in adopting AI-driven efficiencies
- Nature | Self-driving laboratories, advanced immunotherapies and five more technologies to watch in 2025
- The Atlantic | Can Generative AI Uncover the ‘Language of Biology’?
- CBC | Will we control AI, or will it control us? Top researchers weigh in
- Drug Discovery World | Canadian start-up looking to boost drug development success rates
- Kukmin Ilbo | 글로벌 인재 영입 사활 벡터연구소… 캐나다 ‘AI 강국’ 두각 [출처] – 국민일보 [원본링크]
- MIT Technology Review | This lab robot mixes chemicals
- The Globe and Mail | One of the busiest emergency departments in Ontario also has some of the shortest wait times
- The Globe and Mail | How AI will affect health care and patients in Canadian hospitals, according to a scientist leading the charge
- The Globe and Mail | Geoffrey Hinton, who warned of AI’s dangers, co-wins Nobel Prize in Physics
- New York Times | Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists
- New York Times | A.I. Pioneers Call for Protections Against ‘Catastrophic Risks’
- Toronto Star | AI ‘early warning’ system shows promise in preventing hospital deaths, study says
- Betakit | Academics, nonprofits caught in middle of data consent fight as AI companies push for access to copyrighted works
- Financial Post | AI can be a big asset to directors if they know how to use it
- Toronto Star | Federal government announces $2 billion investment to support AI research, growth
- Maclean’s | The Power List: AI
- Global News | What is a self-driving lab? How AI is helping the fight against climate change
- Canadian Lawyer | Deepfakes: GenAI making phoney and real evidence harder to discern, says Maura Grossman
- Financial Post | Meet Nvidia’s Canadian secret weapon
- Financial Post | Looking for AI talent in all the right places
- Outsourcing Pharma | AI and robotics: The future of rug formulation and revolutionizing patient care
- Associated Press | AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text
- Betakit | Waabi fuels up to launch fully driverless trucks in 2025 with $275-million CAD Series B
- HR Reporter | Are you overburdening your tech talent?
- Toronto Star | Tech Update: New report shows how GenAI adoption can boost Canada’s GDP
- IT World Canada | Charting Canada’s AI future: Firms must move quick, innovate, panel says
- The Conversation | Artificial intelligence needs to be trained on culturally diverse datasets to avoid bias
- The Logic | AI can’t be slowed down, Hinton says in call to ban open-source models
- Betakit | Vector Institute leaders chart AI hub’s progress and the challenges that remain
- The Globe and Mail | The architecture of AI: U of T’s new research hub rises
- The Globe and Mail | Canada signs letter of intent with AI giant Nvidia during CEO’s trip to Toronto
- The Globe and Mail | Canadian health care workers turn to AI for help amid a staffing crisis
- The Globe and Mail | AI models ‘collapse’ and spout gibberish over time, research finds. But there could be a fix
- The Logic | ‘Future leaders’: Inside the Canadian summer school that’s a global hothouse for AI talent
- National Post | Real estate’s AI revolution
- The Logic | AI recruiters aren’t taking the summer off. Neither are these students
- The Actuary Magazine | AI and the Pension Industry: One actuary’s look at the potential benefits of AI initiatives
- Toronto Star | Oh, Canada! Six visionaries on the country’s greatest past — and future — discoveries
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