| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.05.2026 | Blank Bio Ignites Precision Oncology with $7.2M Seed Round | Blank Bio secured $7.2M in seed funding. This investment propels RNA foundation models for precision oncology. A strategic partnership with PacBio will generate critical high-resolution long-read RNA sequencing data from patient tumors. Bla... |
| 21.05.2026 | Blank Bio: $7.2 Million Seed Raised To Advance RNA Foundation Models For Precision Oncology | Blank Bio announced the closing of a $7.2 million seed financing alongside a strategic collaboration with PacBio to advance RNA foundation models for precision oncology applications.
The San Francisco-based company is building foundation mo... |
| 19.05.2026 | Blank Bio: $7.2 Million Seed Financing Raised To Advance RNA Foundation Models For Precision Oncology | Blank Bio, an applied AI research lab focused on training foundation models for RNA, announced the closing of a $7.2 million seed financing round along with a strategic collaboration with Pacific Biosciences to advance RNA foundation models... |
| 02.12.2025 | Antler Toronto is Fueling the Next Generation of AI Companies | Share
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Toronto’s tech ecosystem is witnessing a surge of innovative AI startups, with venture capital firm Antler playing a pivotal role in nurturing the next wave of transformative companies. The Rise of AI Entrepren... |
| 27.06.2025 | The rise of prompt ops: Tackling hidden AI costs from bad inputs and context bloat | This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue.
Model providers continue to roll out increasingly sophisticated large language models (... |
| 10.04.2025 | Vector Institute Unveils Comprehensive Evaluation of Leading AI Models | At a glance:
Canada’s Vector Institute has assessed 11 leading AI models from around the world, using 16 performance benchmarks, including those pioneered by Vector researchers.
The State of Evaluation study marks the first time that both o... |
| 19.02.2025 | The Future of Gaming and Biotechnology: A New Era of Innovation | In the fast-paced world of technology, two sectors are poised for monumental shifts: gaming and biotechnology. PHȲND and Shift Bioscience are at the forefront of these changes, each harnessing the power of innovation to redefine their indus... |
| 18.02.2025 | Shift Bioscience establishes North American facilities to expand capabilities of AI-powered virtual cell technology | Head of Machine Learning, Lucas Camillo, to lead team with Professor Bo Wang, University of Toronto, appointed as Senior Advisor
Expansion into global AI hub to accelerate growth of IP portfolio and progress toward key technical milestones
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| 03.10.2024 | The AI Revolution: Transforming Industries with Innovative Solutions | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept. It’s here, reshaping industries and redefining how businesses operate. From legal tech to data infrastructure, AI is the engine driving efficiency and innovation. Companies are... |
| 03.10.2024 | BMO Appoints Chief Artificial Intelligence and Data Officer | BMO announced the appointment of Kristin Milchanowski as its new Chief Artificial Intelligence and Data Officer, effective October 15, 2024.
Kristin will drive BMO’s Artificial Intelligence (AI), data, analytics, and robotics strategies and... |
| 17.07.2024 | OpenAI used a game to help AI models explain themselves better | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
One of the most interesting and useful slang terms to emerge from Reddit in my opinion is ELI5, from its subreddi... |
| 14.09.2023 | Vector Institute Partners With World Economic Forum on Responsible AI and Research Insights | Vector’s President and CEO Tony Gaffney joins AI Governance Alliance and Vector Faculty Member Jeff Clune joins Safe Systems and Technologies counsel
The Vector Institute announced a new partnership with the World Economic Forum. Through th... |
| 19.07.2023 | PAVE Strengthens Artificial Intelligence Team by Sourcing Top Talent from The Vector Institute | PAVE Logo Artificial Intelligence and machine learning play key roles in the evolution of our automated inspection offerings, and executing a partnership with the Vector Institute is a natural next step in advancing PAVE’s best-in-class aut... |
| 18.12.2022 | 🏙️ Vancouver tech's not done yet | Hands up if you’re still hard at work!
The "let's circle back after the holidays" season might have officially begun, but the Vancouver tech sector missed the memo. It’s been a huge week in news, from the announcement of InBC’s fi... |
| 21.10.2021 | Despite COVID-19, Ontario AI ecosystem continues growth trajectory, report finds | The Vector Institute’s second annual snapshot of Ontario’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector has found that despite the pandemic, the province’s AI ecosystem has continued to grow over the past year.
Ontario performed well during 2020-202... |
| 26.08.2020 | Vector Institute forms team to help commercialize AI research | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Vector Institute, an independent nonprofit de... |
| 26.08.2020 | Vector Institute forms team to help commercialize AI research | The Vector Institute, an independent nonprofit dedicated to advancing AI, today established a team to commercialize its industrial and health care research. This group will create tools, frameworks, and model templates while helping organiz... |
| 12.09.2018 | Integrate.ai pulls in $30M to help businesses make better customer-centric decisions | Helping businesses bring more firepower to the fight against AI-fuelled disruptors is the name of the game for Integrate.ai, a Canadian startup that’s announcing a $30M Series A today.
The round is led by Portag3 Ventures . Other VCs includ... |
| 11.09.2018 | Safe artificial intelligence requires cultural intelligence | Gillian Hadfield Contributor
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| 13.06.2018 | Nvidia will open deep learning research lab in Toronto | Nvidia today announced plans to open an AI research facility in Toronto to further explore novel approaches to deep learning. The team will be led by deep learning and computer vision expert and University of Toronto assistant professor San... |
| 13.06.2018 | Nvidia will open deep learning research lab in Toronto | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Nvidia today announced plans to open an AI resear... |
| 28.05.2018 | To truly protect citizens, lawmakers need to restructure their regulatory oversight of big tech | Gillian Hadfield Contributor
Gillian Hadfield is the author of Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy and a professor of law and strategic management at the University of Toronto;... |
| 24.12.2017 | Saudi Arabia’s TechUtopia Neom will have to reinvent the rules to succeed | Gillian Hadfield Contributor
Gillian Hadfield is the author of Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy and a professor of law and strategic management at the University of Toronto;... |
| 22.12.2017 | Toronto’s thriving AI ecosystem serves as a model for the world | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
While you were looking the other way, Toronto hum... |
| 13.09.2017 | To control AI, we need to understand more about humans | Gillian Hadfield Contributor
Gillian Hadfield is the author of Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy and a professor of law and strategic management at the University of Toronto;... |
| 27.06.2017 | How AI can be a force for good | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You probably know that by 2022 an estimated 5 mil... |
| - | Por que o Canadá se tornou a meca da Inteligência Artificial – e o que o Brasil tem a ver com isso? | * Por Salomão Filho
Uma nova onda vem rapidamente tomando conta do ecossistema global de startups, atraindo pesados investimentos do capital de risco e abrindo uma nova frente de batalha entre as grandes empresas de tecnologia e de outros s... |
