艾尔伯塔机器智能研究所（Amii）将与艾尔伯塔省、萨斯喀彻温省和曼尼托巴省的25家更多小企业合作，此前联邦机构PrairiesCan追加拨款250万加元。联邦支持总额现为560万加元，该计划自2024年以来已帮助30家企业。
Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba after federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M. Total federal support is now C$5.6M, and the programme has helped 30 firms since 2024.
艾尔伯塔机器智能研究所（Amii）周二表示，将帮助加拿大草原省份的25家更多小企业自行构建AI工具。联邦机构PrairiesCan追加拨款250万加元，使其总支持额达到560万加元。
Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will help 25 more small businesses in Canada’s Prairie provinces build their own AI tools, the institute said on Tuesday. Federal agency PrairiesCan is adding C$2.5M, taking its total support to C$5.6M.
该计划涵盖艾尔伯塔省、萨斯喀彻温省和曼尼托巴省。首批新项目已在能源、农业和制造业领域开展。
The programme covers Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The first new projects are already under way in energy, farming and manufacturing.
Amii会在每家企业内部安排一名AI专家，与其员工共同利用自身数据开展工作。企业拥有其构建的内容，并在项目结束后学会独立运行。小企业在AI应用上常常落后：在欧盟，只有约17%的企业使用AI，而大企业的比例为55%。
Amii places an AI expert inside each company to work with its staff on their own data. The firm owns what it builds and learns to run it alone once the project ends. Small firms often lag on AI: in the EU, only about 17% use it, against 55% of large companies.
这笔资金将“帮助草原地区的企业扩大影响力”，Amii首席执行官卡姆·林克表示。
The money will help “empower businesses across the Prairies to scale their impact,” said Amii chief executive Cam Linke.
该计划始于2024年，获得300万加元联邦资金，此后已与30家企业合作。其中包括Croptimistic，该公司在农作物喷雾器上安装摄像头，以区分幼小的小麦和燕麦与杂草。
The scheme began in 2024 with C$3M in federal money and has since worked with 30 firms. They include Croptimistic, which uses cameras on crop sprayers to tell young wheat and oats apart from weeds.
林业公司卡森综合公司（Carson Integrated）利用20年的野外数据，构建了一款对溪流进行分类的工具。这有助于确定溪流周围需要保留多少土地。
Forestry firm Carson Integrated used 20 years of field data to build a tool that classifies streams. That helps set how much land around them must be left alone.
Amii是加拿大三家国家级AI研究所之一，另外两家是蒙特利尔的Mila和多伦多的Vector。7月，Anthropic将其列入八家分享1000万加元研究承诺的机构之列。
Amii is one of Canada’s three national AI institutes, alongside Mila in Montreal and Vector in Toronto. In July, Anthropic named it among eight institutions sharing a C$10M research pledge.