Interesting, I'm good with this, but I feel Cohere is still punching below their weight.

For context in August 2025 GC signed an MOU with Cohere to provide AI to the Government of Canada, but I don't think any official contracts have been recorded against it. This also doesn't create any procurement deal, but I think the commitment to 1000 jobs in Canada is good, and hopefully this creates an interest in avoiding something like the Stelco situation.

I do have issues with Cohere not owning any actual compute, despite now 1.8B + 240M (for compute infrastructure) we pumped into them in 2025.

Basically Cohere's GPU capacity comes from CoreWeave in Cambridge ON, or from BUZZ HPC in Merrit BC (at Bell's Fabric DC). But BUZZ HPC is owned by a US parent company that moved to Texas in 2024, which to me is also worrisome.

Anyways, yes, I think we need these investments. Even if you're against AI, Canada needs Canadian AI because the news the last 6 months has been US AI companies owning corporate and government networks, and banning anyone else from that capability.