A federal programme that provides financial support and compute-credits to Canadian SMEs so they can access high-performance/cloud AI compute needed to train, test and deploy models for commercialisation.
Name in original language
AI Compute Access Fund
Initiative overview
Part of Canada’s Sovereign AI and compute strategy, this fund subsidises eligible compute costs (cloud & specialist AI infrastructure) for projects that demonstrate commercial potential. It supports projects with compute budgets typically ranging from six-figure amounts up to multi-million dollar projects, reduces the barrier to training larger models for SMEs, and is delivered through program calls and an application assessment process. The initiative aims to level the playing field between smaller Canadian firms and large cloud providers by subsidising compute costs and encouraging domestic AI capacity.
