AGI House Canada
Canada helped invent modern AI.
AGI House is where Canada's next wave of frontier builders meet.
From Toronto's AlexNet to Montreal's Mila ecosystem — Canada shaped modern AI.
Join AGI House Toronto
Geoffrey Hinton
University of Toronto
Deep learning pioneer, AlexNet co-creator
Canadian AI leaders
From deep learning pioneers to frontier builders — the people who put Canada on the AI map.
Geoffrey Hinton
University of Toronto
Deep learning pioneer, AlexNet co-creator
Geoffrey Hinton
University of Toronto
Yoshua Bengio
Université de Montréal
Deep learning pioneer, Mila founder
Yoshua Bengio
Université de Montréal
Richard S. Sutton
University of Alberta
RL founder, 2024 Turing Award recipient
Richard S. Sutton
University of Alberta
Ilya Sutskever
U of T, trained under Hinton
AlexNet co-inventor, OpenAI co-founder
Ilya Sutskever
U of T, trained under Hinton
Alex Krizhevsky
U of T
AlexNet lead author
Alex Krizhevsky
U of T
Ian Goodfellow
UdeM / Mila
Invented GANs
Ian Goodfellow
UdeM / Mila
Aaron Courville
UdeM / Mila
Deep Learning textbook co-author
Aaron Courville
UdeM / Mila
Joëlle Pineau
McGill / Cohere
Led Meta FAIR, now Chief AI Officer at Cohere
Joëlle Pineau
McGill / Cohere
Doina Precup
McGill / DeepMind Montreal
RL leader, DeepMind Montreal head
Doina Precup
McGill / DeepMind Montreal
Jimmy Ba
U of T / Vector
Adam optimizer, efficient deep learning
Jimmy Ba
U of T / Vector
Raquel Urtasun
U of T / Waabi
Vector co-founder, Waabi founder/CEO
Raquel Urtasun
U of T / Waabi
Aidan Gomez
Toronto / Cohere
Cohere co-founder, Transformers co-author
Aidan Gomez
Toronto / Cohere
Chamath Palihapitiya
Raised in Ottawa
Early Facebook exec, Social Capital founder
Chamath Palihapitiya
Raised in Ottawa
Garry Tan
Canadian roots
Y Combinator CEO, Initialized Capital founder
Garry Tan
Canadian roots
Tobi Lütke
Ottawa / Shopify
Shopify founder & CEO, built Canada's largest tech company
Tobi Lütke
Ottawa / Shopify
Andrej Karpathy
U of T / UBC
OpenAI founding team, Tesla Autopilot
Andrej Karpathy
U of T / UBC
Why Canada?
Canada didn't just contribute to AI — it helped create modern AI.
Deep learning revival
Hinton, Bengio, and Sutton kept neural networks alive when the world gave up. Their persistence at Toronto and Montreal labs created the foundation for modern AI.
Key breakthroughs
AlexNet (2012), GANs (2014), attention mechanisms — transformative innovations born from Canadian research that power today's frontier models.
Global AI cluster
MILA, Vector Institute, Amii — world-class research institutions attracting top talent and fostering the next generation of AI pioneers.
What happens at AGI House
Regular gatherings designed for depth over breadth.
Dinners
Intimate 12-15 person dinners with curated guests
Reading groups
Deep dives into frontier papers and research
Lab tours
Behind-the-scenes at leading AI research facilities
Build nights
Hands-on hackathons and collaborative projects
Safety roundtables
Discussions on AI governance and responsible development
Canada's AI talent network
AGI House Canada connects you directly with the best AI talent across the country. Skip recruiters. Hire from the community.
Direct access to talent
Connect with AI researchers, ML engineers, and frontier builders across Canada's top institutions.
Pre-vetted community
Our invite-only community ensures quality. Every member works at the frontier of AI.
Local & committed
Hire talent already rooted in Canadian cities — Vector Institute, Mila, UBC, and beyond.
Our chapters
Join your local community of AI builders and researchers.
Past highlights
Intimate gatherings for deep conversations and real connections. Next events coming soon.
Paper Reading: Scaling Laws
Deep dive into Chinchilla scaling laws and their implications for frontier labs.
Founders Dinner
Intimate dinner with AI founders building in Canada. Two co-founder matches made.
Hackathon: AI Agents
Hands-on build night focused on autonomous agents. Three projects shipped.
Who it's for
People working at the frontier — seriously and optimistically.
- Researchers pushing the frontiers of AI capabilities and safety
- Founders building AI-first companies and infrastructure
- Engineers working on production systems at scale
- Policy thinkers shaping responsible AI governance
- PhD students and postdocs bridging research and application
This is early. If you want it to exist, help shape it.
What to expect
Small gatherings designed for depth, not networking.
Intimate dinners with 12-15 people. No keynotes. No pitches. Just deep conversations about what you're actually building.
Reading groups where everyone's done the reading. We go paper-by-paper through the most important work in AI.
Build nights where side projects become startups. Two members met their co-founders at our Vancouver chapter.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about applying and participating.
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