Bell announced Tuesday a strategic partnership with Montreal-based Coveo to deliver secure, sovereign AI solutions for federal and provincial governments and regulated industries.
The partnership combines the Coveo AI-Relevance Platform with Bell AI Fabric, a full-stack AI offering anchored by Bell’s nationwide fibre network, data centre infrastructure, software, cloud capabilities, and advanced professional integration and adoption services.
“Together, the companies aim to deliver secure, compliant and scalable AI solutions to help organizations modernize citizen services, enhance workforce productivity and unlock the full value of their data — while keeping sensitive information, data and AI operations within Canada, under Canadian law,” said a Bell press release Tuesday.
Bell’s technology services division, Ateko, will play a central role in solution design, integration and governance advisory services “to support responsible adoption of the Coveo AI-Relevance platform within complex public sector and regulated environments,” the press release said.
The collaboration builds on Bell and Coveo’s growing role in advancing AI innovation in Canada’s public and private sectors, the release said, including Coveo’s previously announced memorandum of understanding with the Government of Canada to modernize public services with AI-powered search and relevance technology.
In recent months, Bell has partnered with domestic technology companies, including SAP Canada and Cohere, as part of its objective to build a Canadian AI ecosystem.
“Canada has a responsibility and opportunity to lead in sovereign AI,” John Watson, Bell’s group president of business markets, AI and Ateko, said in a statement. “Through our strategic partnership with Coveo, we are strengthening a made-in-Canada AI ecosystem that combines our secure national infrastructure and Bell AI Fabric with Coveo’s world-class, internationally recognized AI-Relevance platform. As partners, we will help governments and enterprises modernize mission-critical services while ensuring Canadian data and AI computing remains secure, governed and under Canadian control.”
“This partnership represents a defining step in building a fully integrated sovereign AI stack in Canada,” said Laurent Simoneau, CEO of Coveo. “By embedding the Coveo AI-Relevance Platform within Bell AI Fabric, we are helping governments and enterprises to deploy advanced AI search and generative capabilities at scale with confidence to drive transformative outcomes while maintaining high standards of security, transparency and sovereignty.”
