The hub seeks to develop “modest AI” with strong value.
The Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Montreal Mila is working with local Hypertec and 5C infrastructure companies to create a sovereign research center of AI, which is aimed at providing computational resources for researchers and startups.
“The development of modern calculation with less energy and a large amount of intelligence is a way of scale to global exposure to Canada.”
Valerie Pisano, Mila
The research center will be based in the new headquarters of Hypertec in Lasalla, in the south of Montreal. It is intended to create more than 50 jobs, providing resources to accelerate research and entrepreneurship of artificial intelligence, as well as the provision of services with lower energy award than other computers.
Hypertec and 5C are invested in the development of up to $ 250 million, which will serve as a global headquarters of Hypertec. Company He broke the earth The facility in March claims that this will create several hundred new jobs.
The announcement was made during the third annual All in the conference In Montreal, in which more than 6,000 technological companies, business leaders, researchers and government officials were going to discuss the Canadian II industry.
Valeri Pisano, president and chief executive director of Mila, welcomed this news both for both researchers and local startups. “The development of modern calculation with less energy and greater information is the way forward to scaling the global influence of Canada,” she said in a statement.
Founded by the Pioneer of AI Yoshua Bengio, Mila specializes in deep learning research and has partnerships with several Canadian academic institutions. Recently appointed New Scientific Director of Hugo Laroshel, Who said that he intends to better support scientists in the commercialization of their research and construction companies.
Hypertec said that its new Lasalle campus will provide up to three megavatts (MW) “safe” AI infrastructure, and graphic units (graphic processors) from leading developers of NVIDIA, AMD and Intel chips. Laboratory testing in the new AI Hub will strive for the development of Frugal AI or the better performance of the AI for AI for each dollar spent.
Traditional data processing centers provide computing power for data storage and application launch. While they require from five to 10 MW energy, one of the valuable data of AI usually requires more than 100 MWAccording to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
For Mila, one of the three federal Canadian artificial intelligence institutions with more than 1000 researchers, the new center is an opportunity to combine its academic efforts using the computer authorities of AI – that, according to scientists, is difficult to get, receiving high demand from the technological sector.
According to Federal consultationMost of the artificial intelligence researchers said that the demand for public computing infrastructure often exceeds the proposal and affects the fact that projects prefer to engage. This is not just a problem in Canada: the study of scientists around the world was shown by disappointment Lack of access to calculation For study of AI.
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Founded in 1984 in Saint-Lavra, Que., Hypertec creates and controls data centers that offer cloud infrastructure and services to thousands of customers. He turned off the Hypertec Cloud and acquired the American company 5C in April, which gave it a large area in the United States, about 600 MW of computing power through existing data centers 5C.
Hypertec business has grown as companies in Canada and around the world Create more data processing centers To get the demand for artificial intelligence services. This summer, the company announced a construction plan of $ 5 billion Two gigavatts of computing capacity of AI In Europe with new data processing centers. To nourish this assembly, this Provide more than $ 1 billion In financing shares and debts from Brookfield Asset Management and Deutsche Bank.
The project has support from all three levels of government. Federal Minister of AI Evan Solomon said that the initiative “promotion of Canada digital sovereigntySince the data center operator is a Canadian. Kristina Freeschet, Minister of Economics of Quebec, said that “the leadership of Quebec in this area will further strengthen.” The city of Montreal Concluded a deal with Hypertec to sell its plot of land in Lasalla, successfully Holding on their plans To build an object on Technoparc Montréal.
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