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Quebec

Home to Mila, one of the world's leading academic deep-learning research institutes.

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AI Institutes
Mila
Mila
Capital
Quebec City
Pop. 9

Key Players

Mila·McGill University·Université de Montréal


What's happening in Quebec

Curated Canada stream

Signals worth scanning now

A narrower Canada feed focused on the items most relevant to acceleration, capacity building, and institutional impact.

Source methodology
Quebec
Data from Canadian News Feeds

AI Search Interest by Province

LIVE

Relative search interest (0–100). Higher values indicate greater search volume relative to total searches in that region.

Data from Google Trends

Labour Demand

Market Performance

Canadian AI Research

Data from arXiv.org

Parliamentary Records

Recent mentions of artificial intelligence in House of Commons debates and committee proceedings, sourced from OpenParliament.ca. Tracks which MPs and parties are engaging with AI policy and the tone of their discourse.

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Data from OpenParliament.ca

Talent & Education

Tech Immigration

NSERC AI Grants

University AI Programs29 programs at 20 universities

Graduate and undergraduate programs in AI, machine learning, and data science at Canadian universities.

Université de Montréal

Quebec

MScPhD

Yoshua Bengio's department (Full Professor); Mila affiliation

McGill University

Quebec

MScPhD

Mila affiliated; strong RL and NLP groups

Polytechnique Montréal

Quebec

Certificate

Université Laval

Quebec

MSc

Ecosystem & Community

Canadian AI Startups41 companies tracked

Notable AI companies across Canada, from early-stage startups to public companies.

CoveoPublic
Quebec City, QuebecEst. 2005

AI-powered enterprise search and relevance platform

Search & Discovery
Element AIAcquired
Montreal, QuebecEst. 2016

AI solutions factory (acquired by ServiceNow)

Enterprise AI
DialoguePublic
Montreal, QuebecEst. 2016

AI-powered virtual healthcare and wellness platform

Healthcare AI
Montreal, QuebecEst. 2005

Commerce platform with AI analytics for retail and hospitality

Enterprise AI
BreezeSeries A
Montreal, QuebecEst. 2020

AI-first insurance underwriting platform

FinTech AI
MnuboAcquired
Montreal, QuebecEst. 2012

IoT analytics platform with ML (acquired by Aspen Technology)

Enterprise AI
DeepliteAcquired
Montreal, QuebecEst. 2017

Neural network optimization for edge AI (acquired by STMicroelectronics, April 2025)

AI Infrastructure
ImagiaAcquired
Montreal, QuebecEst. 2015

AI radiomics for cancer detection; merged with Canexia Health (2022), filed for bankruptcy (2023)

Healthcare AI

+1 more companies

Funding & Startup Signals

Funding rounds, acquisitions, and product launches extracted from Canadian AI news.

AI Events & Community2 upcoming

Conferences, meetups, and public consultations across Canada.

Aug

22

AI4Good Lab Demo Day
Montreal, Quebec
Hackathon

Sep

16

ALL IN 2026
Montreal, Quebec
Conference