Telus announced Wednesday a new partnership with Ottawa-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) accelerator L-Spark to provide Canadian startups and small businesses with access to Telus’s Sovereign AI Factory.
The collaboration enables Canadian AI startups to access the same high-performance, enterprise-grade computing infrastructure available to large organizations without having to relocate or build on foreign platforms, Telus said in a press release.
The partnership will prioritize organizations in regulated and mission-critical sectors where data residency, auditability and Canadian legal jurisdiction are essential, including public sector services, healthcare, finance, critical infrastructure and utilities, Telus said.
Canadian startups, scaleups and research teams with defined AI workloads and significant graphics processing unit (GPU) requirements can sign up with L-Spark to access reserved Telus AI Factory GPU capacity.
