Data 2026-07
Sovereign AI
Announced commitments against government budgets and reported disbursements, by country.
Announced commitments against government budgets and reported disbursements, by country.
Sovereign programme record · Canada · 2024–2030
Every figure below derives from the same record the dashboard reads — this page is the programme as a citable object: the reconciliation with its denominator stated, the decomposition with its residual, and the dated evidence behind each claim.
Pipeline stage: Deployed (primary-verified evidence) — 636 accelerators tracked. The stage is a Scrutica derivation (tier 4), computed from the figures above, never asserted by the source.
| Component | Kind | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Budget 2024: AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program (public supercomputer) | Government | $506M |
| Budget 2024: AI Compute Challenge (commercial DC incentives) | Government | $503M |
| Budget 2024: AI Compute Access Fund (SME access) | Government | $215M |
| Budget 2024: Existing infrastructure augmentation (NRC, CIFAR, Alliance) | Government | $144M |
| Budget 2025: Additional sovereign AI infrastructure (C$925.6M over 5yr) | Government | $664M |
| AI for All (2026-06-04): AI Compute Access Fund top-up (C$700M, bringing the Fund from C$300M to C$1B total) | Government | $503M |
The residualThe amount-bearing components sum to $2.53B against the $2.60B headline — a $68M gap the components do not account for. The decomposition is published as the record carries it; the residual is stated rather than smoothed.
| Model | Count | Status | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 (40GB) | 636 | operational | Digital Research Alliance (Narval, Calcul Québec) |
| Partner | GPUs | Model | Stage | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere Inc. | — | NVIDIA (model unspecified) | awarded | Primary source · 2025-03-01 |
| CoreWeave | — | NVIDIA (model unspecified) | awarded | Primary source · 2025-03-01 |
| Digital Research Alliance of Canada | — | — | awarded | Primary source · 2025-01-01 |
| Mila (Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle) | — | — | empanelled | Primary source · 2024-01-01 |
| Vector Institute | — | — | empanelled | Primary source · 2024-01-01 |
| Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) | — | — | empanelled | Primary source · 2024-01-01 |
| Shared Services Canada | — | — | empanelled | Primary source · 2024-04-16 |
| National Research Council of Canada | — | — | empanelled | Primary source · 2024-04-16 |
| Queen's University | — | — | shortlisted | Press or analyst · 2026-03-01 |
NVIDIA hardware: high · TSMC fabrication: high · US technology: high · BIS jurisdiction reach: none recorded. Dependence levels are Scrutica classifications (tier 4) from the programme’s own disclosures — which hardware it buys, where it fabricates, and whose export jurisdiction its supply chain crosses.
Named partners: Digital Research Alliance of Canada, CIFAR, ISED, Canada Infrastructure Bank, NRC.
C$2B was committed in Budget 2024 across three pillars: up to C$705M for a public supercomputer (the AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program), C$700M for commercial data-center incentives (the AI Compute Challenge), and C$300M for SME access (the AI Compute Access Fund). Budget 2025 added C$925.6M over five years, C$800M of which came from Budget 2024 set-asides. The Canada Infrastructure Bank is empowered to invest in AI infrastructure. No accelerator counts appear in official documents. The 'AI for All' national strategy launched 2026-06-04: the AI Compute Access Fund was topped up from C$300M to C$1B, C$700M of it new, and sovereign-compute capacity of 850MW rising to 2.3GW is proposed — partnerships are being finalized and the capacity is not yet committed.
Machine surfacesThis record is one object under one id: the evidence-trail feed and the derivation-chain export serialize the same programme this page renders.