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AGI House Montreal

Where AI Safety Meets Breakthrough Research

The birthplace of deep learning research and now the global center for AI safety. Mila's 1,300+ researchers are shaping how AI benefits humanity.

1,300+
Mila Researchers
140+
Affiliated Professors
50+
Incubated Startups
$250M
Quebec AI Investment

Why Montreal?

Home to Mila, the world's largest academic AI lab with 1,300+ researchers. Where Yoshua Bengio is building the future of safe AI.

1

Yoshua Bengio won the Turing Award for deep learning

2

LawZero: $30M nonprofit to make AI safe

3

Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) headquartered here

4

30-40% lower costs than Toronto

Key Institutions

  • Mila (Quebec AI Institute)
  • UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al
  • McGill University
  • Polytechnique MontrĂ©al

Notable Companies

  • Element AI Alumni
  • Samsung AI Center
  • Google DeepMind Montreal
  • Microsoft Research

Upcoming Events in Montreal

Join us at our next gathering. Intimate events for deep conversations and real connections.

Reading Group

AI Safety Reading Group: Constitutional AI

Thu, Jan 22
6:00 PM EST
Mila
22 / 30 attending

Discussing Anthropic's Constitutional AI paper. How can we train AI systems to be helpful, harmless, and honest?

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Meetup

Mila Researchers Meetup

Thu, Jan 29
5:30 PM EST
Brasserie T!
28 / 40 attending

Casual meetup for Mila researchers and AI practitioners in Montreal. Share your latest projects and meet fellow researchers.

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Workshop

AI Alignment Workshop

Thu, Feb 12
2:00 PM EST
McGill University
35 / 50 attending

Hands-on workshop on AI alignment techniques. Learn RLHF, constitutional AI, and debate-based alignment approaches.

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AI Leaders from Montreal

The researchers and builders shaping AI in Montreal.

Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio

Université de Montréal

Deep learning pioneer, Mila founder

Ian Goodfellow

Ian Goodfellow

UdeM / Mila

Invented GANs

Aaron Courville

Aaron Courville

UdeM / Mila

Deep Learning textbook co-author

Joëlle Pineau

Joëlle Pineau

McGill / Cohere

Led Meta FAIR, now Chief AI Officer at Cohere

Doina Precup

Doina Precup

McGill / DeepMind Montreal

RL leader, DeepMind Montreal head

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