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These two Canadian cities added 115,000 tech jobs in the last five years

Plus: BC and Toronto venture funding bounced back in Q2 2023. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the…

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These two Canadian cities added 115,000 tech jobs last year

Plus: BC and Toronto venture funding bounced back in Q2 2023. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the…

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Venture funding in Toronto, British Columbia rebounds in second quarter of 2023

Capital converges on a select few winners as Toronto and BC megadeals make a comeback. Following a sluggish start to the year, two of…

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Cohere secures strategic investment from SAP as enterprise demand for generative AI grows
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Cohere secures strategic investment from SAP as enterprise demand for generative AI grows

Toronto-based Cohere has also partnered with McKinsey. German software giant SAP has made strategic investments in Toronto-based OpenAI rival Cohere and a pair of…

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A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI has a new team to fight ‘superintelligent’ AI

Plus: Experts and VCs disagree on the actual perils of AI. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning,…

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A|I: The AI Times – Can Québec’s Quantum Innovation Zone fill Canada’s D-Wave-sized hole?

Plus: AWS investing $100 million in generative AI center. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data,…

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A|I: The AI Times – Cohere is on Bessemer’s list, D-Wave is moving execs to the US

Plus: Oracle’s answer to the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation…

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Payments Canada announces global firm Tata Consultancy Services will lead the integration of the Real-Time Rail system
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The two Canadian cities rising in Startup Genome’s global ecosystem rankings

Plus: Real-Time Rail delays are an unmitigated disaster. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important…

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Cohere is the highest ranking Canadian startup on Bessemer’s top 100 deeptech companies

Deep technology companies are building solutions that ‘were science fiction in the past,’ Bessemer says. Toronto-based Cohere is the highest-ranking Canadian startup in Bessemer…

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A|I: The AI Times – Microsoft is moving top AI experts from China to Canada

Plus: Canada’s Cohere secures $270M to continue “foundational contributions” to AI. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning,…

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