How much federal funding is going into Amii's AI program?
Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will help 25 more small businesses across Canada’s Prairie provinces build their own artificial intelligence tools, the institute said Tuesday. Federal agency PrairiesCan is adding C$2.5 million to the effort, bringing total federal support to C$5.6 million.
The program covers Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Its first new projects are already underway in energy, farming and manufacturing.
How does Amii's program help small businesses build AI tools?
Amii places an AI expert inside each participating company, where that person works alongside staff using the firm’s own data. The company owns what it builds and learns to run the tool on its own once the project ends. The model is aimed at a known gap. Small firms often lag on AI adoption. Across the European Union, only about 17% of firms use the technology, compared with 55% of large companies.
Cam Linke, Amii’s chief executive, said the new money will help “empower businesses across the Prairies to scale their impact.”
What has the Amii program achieved so far?
The scheme began in 2024 with C$3 million in federal funding and has since worked with 30 firms. Among them is Croptimistic, which uses cameras on crop sprayers to tell young wheat and oats apart from weeds.
Forestry firm Carson Integrated took a different route. It used 20 years of field data to build a tool that classifies streams. That classification helps set how much land around a stream must be left alone.
Amii is one of Canada’s three national AI institutes, alongside Mila in Montreal and Vector in Toronto. In July, Anthropic named Amii among eight institutions sharing a C$10 million research pledge.
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