Google Canada announces $13M fund supporting four AI skills training organizations

Google Canada announced Wednesday the creation of an AI Opportunity Fund that will provide $13 million from Google.org to four Canadian organizations providing AI skills development and training across the country. The four supported organizations are the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, the First Nations Technology Council, Skills for Change, and the Toronto Public Library. The funding will help them to scale their best-in-class workforce development programs, a Google Canada press release said, adding these organizations together will reach more than two million Canadians with AI training. Supported by the AI Opportunity Fund, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute will provide post-secondary students across Canada with...