Is your AI-focused small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) ready to bring cutting-edge products to market?
The Artificial Intelligence Compute Access Fund is now accepting applications!
This program helps you offset the high cost of cloud-based compute, so you can focus on scaling your innovation, accelerating commercialization and staying globally competitive.
What’s on offer?
You can get funding to accelerate the commercialization of new AI products and help make Canada a global leader in AI.
- Up to $3.35 million toward cloud-based compute services
- Enhanced support for SMEs leveraging Canada-based cloud providers
Are you eligible?
You may qualify if your organization meets all the following criteria:
- Be incorporated in Canada
- Have fewer than 500 full-time employees
- Be revenue-generating or have secured Series A financing
- Have a Canada-based research and development (R&D) team
- Develop AI products or services and have a commercialization plan demonstrating a clear path to market (including milestones, target customers, competitive advantages and scaling strategies)
- Have an existing AI compute service agreement in place
- Have total compute costs ranging from $100,000 to $5 million (over a period of up to three years)
Application period
Opens: June 25, 2025
Closes: July 31, 2025
Don’t miss this opportunity.
Scale your AI innovation, accelerate time to market and stay competitive with support designed for Canadian SMEs. Learn more about eligibility and the application process.