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COUNTRY · CA
Canada
Model development, business adoption and the research base behind them.
CA
17 catalogue entries
Broader Epoch catalogue, including variants; not a complete model census.
1.79% of GDP
All R&D, not AI-only investment.
What this model count includes
17Entries in the broader Epoch catalogue
1Entries with a notability criterion
Same source, year and developer-country attribution. The broader catalogue includes versions and sizes. Neither number is the total number of models developed here.
Models behind the count
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Country research · captured 2026-10-22Data dates
MODEL DEVELOPMENT
Canada in the model-building landscape
Annual notable-model entries · developer country · 2020–2025
International collaborations may appear in multiple countries. Counts are not additive market shares or a national AI-strength ranking.
Loading chartEpoch AI · CC BY 4.0 · Complete years through 2025 · incomplete 2026 excluded
From policy to implementation
AI advantage package
C$2.4bnBudget 2024 package · CADIncludes C$2bn for compute access and infrastructure, alongside adoption and skills measures.
The foundations around AI
These indicators describe all research and development, not AI-only expenditure or AI’s measured economic impact.
R&D expenditure
1.79% of GDP · all R&D · 2024 · Canada
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World Bank WDI / UNESCO Institute for Statistics · % of GDP · all R&DR&D researchers
5,624.27per million people · all R&D · 2022 · Canada
Loading chartComparison uses 2017, the latest common year for this selection. The latest national observation above may be newer.
World Bank WDI / UNESCO Institute for Statistics · per million people · all R&DEpoch AI · CC BY 4.0 · Model comparisons stop at 2025; incomplete 2026 is excluded. No forward-filled research observations.
No statistically compatible enterprise-adoption series is included for Canada. Missing coverage is not zero adoption.
Models connected to Canada
Epoch’s notable-model selection · developer country · international projects can appear in multiple countries
Diffusion RendererNvidia,University of Toronto,Vector Institute,University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)AyaCohere Labs (formerly Cohere for AI),Brown University,Cohere,Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Cohere EmbedCohereHyenaDNAStanford University,Harvard University,Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms),University of Montreal / Université de MontréalStarCoderHugging Face,ServiceNow,Northeastern University,Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms),Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),Johns Hopkins University,Leipzig University,ScaDS.AI,Queen Mary University of London,Roblox,Sea AI Lab,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,Monash University,CSIRO,Data61,McGill University,Saama,University of British Columbia (UBC),Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),Technical University of Munich,IBM,University of Vermont,UnfoldML,SAP,University of Notre Dame,Columbia University,New York University (NYU),University of Allahabad,Discover Dollar,Toloka,Telefonica,Stanford University,Weizmann Institute of Science,Alan Turing Institute,Wellesley College,EleutherAI,Forschungszentrum JulichProteinDTUniversity of California (UC) Berkeley,California Institute of Technology,University of Toronto,University of Wisconsin Madison,Texas A&M,Nvidia,Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms)DreamerV3DeepMind,University of TorontoAR-LDMAlibaba,University of Waterloo,Vector Institute
