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Actual disbursements will vary with the exchange rate.","No accelerator count is on record: official documents do not specify AI-accelerator procurement in unit counts.","The AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program's SOI closed on 4 May 2025; partner selection is ongoing.","AI Compute Access Fund applications opened in June 2025.","Narval, at Calcul Québec, has 636 A100 GPUs across 159 nodes at four apiece, verified against Alliance Canada documentation at authority tier 1.","No partner selection had been announced for the AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program as of April 2026; the full proposal phase is ongoing.","Update, 2026-07-14: Prime Minister Carney launched 'AI for All', Canada's refreshed national AI strategy, on 2026-06-04 in Toronto. The pm.gc.ca release, tier 1 and retrieved from the publisher's own site, confirms the 4 June 2026 launch date but does not itemize the Compute Access Fund or any MW/GW figures. Compute-specific figures are confirmed via a separate ised-isde.canada.ca 'AI for All' page, also tier 1 and retrieved directly: 'an additional $700 million in affordable sovereign compute through an expansion of the Compute Access Fund' (Pillar 5), and 'proposed providing 850 MW of compute capacity by 2030, with scaling capacity of up to 2.3 GW ... These partnerships are being finalized' — a direct quote, and explicitly proposed rather than operational or committed capacity. The figures are read as CAD per this record's established convention for Canadian-sourced amounts, since Canadian outlets report domestic dollars as CAD by default. The C$700M top-up reconciles cleanly against the existing C$300M AI Compute Access Fund entry above (C$300M + C$700M = C$1B, matching the 'topped to $1B' framing used by several outlets) and is added as a new, non-overlapping entry in the decomposition. The 850MW/2.3GW capacity figure is not added to the recorded hardware, since it is proposed third-party partnership capacity rather than an owned accelerator or facility count, and is flagged here as context only. The broader approximately $2B headline for 'AI for All' reported by CBC and others restates money already inside this record's Budget 2024 and Budget 2025 entries rather than adding to them, and is not double-counted.","A reconciliation is flagged and unresolved: whether any part of the broader 'approximately $2B new investment' headline for AI for All is incremental to, or a restatement of, the existing Budget 2024 (C$2B) and Budget 2025 (C$925.6M) entries could not be settled from the pages retrieved. Only the C$700M Compute Access Fund top-up, which reconciles cleanly as described above, was added to the announced total. The Budget 2026 documents, if tabled, would settle it."],"last_validated_at":"2026-08-15"}