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Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Russ Greiner and University of Alberta researcher and collaborator David Wishart were awarded the Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Amii partners with pipikwan pêhtâkwan and its startup company wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, to harness AI in efforts to challenge misinformation about Indigenous People and include Indigenous People in the development of AI. The project is supported by the PrairiesCan commitment to accelerate AI adoption among SMEs in the Prairie region.

Amii Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and co-lead at BLINC Lab Patrick Pilarski is leading the team to compete in the 2024 Cybathlon, an international competition advancing leading-edge assistive technologies for individuals with limb differences.

Amii partners with Visionstate, a facility management solutions company, to tackle the complexities of staff and task scheduling in dynamic facility management. The project is supported by the PrairiesCan commitment to accelerate AI adoption among SMEs in the Prairie region.

Amii is pleased to partner with Medtronic, Rehabtronics and a consortium of healthcare innovation experts to launch PressureSmart, a $22M project that aims to leverage AI-powered depth-sensing cameras to transform the prevention and management of pressure injuries in Canadian healthcare settings.

Amii partners with SpectraCann to enhance THC drug detection by harnessing AI and quantum optics. The project is supported by the PrairiesCan commitment to accelerate AI adoption among SMEs in the Prairie region.

Amii partners with ZeroSound to address noise pollution in complex environments by leveraging the best in AI and sound engineering. The project is supported by the PrairiesCan commitment to accelerate AI adoption among SMEs in the Prairie region.

Amii partners with the Google for Startups Cloud Program to help founders scale and grow. Participation in the Google for Startup Cloud program is open to any existing startup that has participated in Amii’s ML Exploration program or Level Up: Amii’s CTO Coaching program in the last 12 months or intends to do so in the future.

Amii partners with Ambyint to reduce emissions in the oil and gas sector. The collaboration aims to mitigate up to 90% of methane emissions. The project is supported by the PrairiesCan commitment to accelerate AI adoption in the Prairie region.

Amii announces work with Communitech, a Waterloo Region innovation hub, to empower startup founders with the AI tools and resources they need to integrate AI and build in-house capabilities successfully. The collaboration will leverage Amii’s leading AI expertise and resources and be centred around Amii’s Machine Learning Exploration (ML Exploration) program.

Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Ross Mitchell and his project collaborators were recently awarded $1M, as part of The Health Care Unburdened Grant Program, presented by the Canadian Medical Association, MD Financial Management Inc. and Scotiabank. The funding will scale "Jenkins", their AI scribe tool that directly addresses the growing demands of emergency departments.

Leading AI research meets pioneering legal technology to set new industry standards.

Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) is investing $3.125 million in Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) for a project that will see the institute working with up to 30 small - and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba over the next three years.

Amii and New Harvest are excited to announce phase two of their research collaboration focused on applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in cellular agriculture. The new phase initiates a year-long project with an open call to researchers and experts specializing in cellular agriculture and machine learning who want to apply ML solutions to solve the challenges in the field.

Amii media highlights for 2024.

Congratulations to Amii Alum Roberto Vega, research supervisor Russ Greiner (Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair), and collaborator Leonardo Flores who were recently awarded the Forecasting 2022 Best Paper Award for their paper, “SIMLR: Machine Learning inside the SIR Model for Covid-19 forecasting”.

Amii is thrilled to launch Approximately Correct: An AI Podcast from Amii. The podcast invites listeners to go beyond the buzzwords and hear the stories behind the science, meet the people advancing technology and learn about AI’s potential to transform our world from the people on the ground.

Amii's media highlights for 2023.

Under the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, Amii is building a high-powered compute infrastructure to support advancements in Canadian ML research. Read more about the power of compute, Amii's unique compute needs and why computing infrastructure is essential to advancing research.

Cam Linke, Amii CEO, received the Alumni Horizon Award from the University of Alberta for his professional achievements and contributions to community in a ceremony held at the Citadel Theatre on October 25.

AI is changing how we learn and teach. Learn how Amii is helping teachers and students adapt to this shift in technology through programming developed for K-12.

Amii's Chief Scientific Advisor announces partnership with John Carmack to bring greater focus and urgency to the creation of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

The course aims to build fundamental AI literacy for an evolving digital world

Amii and Tourism Jasper announce one-year partnership to build AI capacity and explore applications of artificial intelligence that will support the success of tourism operators in Jasper.