Complete guide to Doina PrecupâMcGill professor, DeepMind Montreal director, options framework co-inventor, AI4Good Lab founder, and one of the most influential RL researchers in the world.
How a Toronto research institute kept neural networks alive during the AI winter and launched the world's first national AI strategy. The complete guide to CIFAR.
How a university lab in Alberta became the world's leading center for reinforcement learning, attracted DeepMind, and produced the 2024 Turing Award winner. The complete guide.
Complete guide to LawZeroâthe nonprofit AI safety lab founded by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio. Inside the Scientist AI approach, $35M funding, world-class team, and why the godfather of deep learning stepped down from Mila to pursue AI safety full-time.
From Rich Sutton's foundational RL algorithms to DeepMind Alberta and 29 startup investments, Amii has made Edmonton the global epicenter of reinforcement learning research. Here's the complete story.
From its $50M launch in November 2024 to international partnerships and research grants, here's everything you need to know about the Canadian AI Safety InstituteâCanada's answer to the global AI safety challenge.
From backpropagation in the 1980s to the 2024 Nobel Prize and AI safety warnings, Geoffrey Hinton transformed machine learning from academic curiosity to civilization-shaping technology. Here's his complete story.
From co-inventing AlexNet with Geoffrey Hinton to founding Safe Superintelligence Inc with $3B at a $32B valuation, here's everything you need to know about Ilya Sutskeverâthe AI pioneer who went from scaling advocate to safety advocate.
Montreal hosts Milaâthe world's largest academic AI research lab with 1,300+ researchers. From Yoshua Bengio's $30M LawZero safety nonprofit to $1.3B in VC deals, here's why AGI House is launching in Canada's AI research capital.
Home to Mila, Yoshua Bengio, and the world's largest academic AI research center, Montreal is where the hardest problems in AI get solved. Here's what makes it unique.
From inventing temporal difference learning to winning the 2024 Turing Award, Rich Sutton built Edmonton into the world capital of reinforcement learningâand charts a contrarian path toward AGI that bets everything on learning by doing.
From inventing attention mechanisms to founding LawZero with $30M, Yoshua Bengio built the foundations of modern AI and now leads the fight for AI safety. Here's his complete storyâtechnical breakthroughs, Mila's rise, and why he's building alternatives to dangerous AI.
Toronto is the global hub for AI safety research. With Vector Institute, the Schwartz Reisman Institute, and world-leading researchers like Roger Grosse and Sheila McIlraith, here's why safety-focused builders should be here.