9 Canadian AI Startups Making Canada Great Again

Fast-forward a few decades and Canada, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, appears poised to wrestle back its title, as Canadian AI startups are flowing out of research hubs like Toronto and Montreal like so much maple syrup. The government, led by a much better-looking version of billionaire Mark Cuban in Justin Trudeau, has pledged nearly $100 million to support AI research centers across the country, the New York Times reported. The company says its AI system plugs into big data to find the most efficient ways to generate, transmit and deliver electricity, with the goal to decrease pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. The machine learning algorithms are specially tuned for companies peddling the Internet of Things, able to answer nearly 85,000 questions and handle 60 percent of queries without a human soul being involved. Naborly’s AI system, SHERLY (insert your own Airplane joke here), performs the usual tenant screening stuff like verifying employment and income, along with credit and background checks.