If that's true then why hasn't Canada managed to produce a credible competitor already? What are they missing? Will the opportunity to win domestic government contracts change that situation or are there other obstacles?

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maximilianburke 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because govtech is notoriously difficult to break in to.

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nradov 3 hours ago | parent [-]

How did Palantir break in? What's preventing a Canadian competitor from doing the same?

	▲	bigyabai 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> How did Palantir break in? Peter Thiel abusing government backchannels. > What's preventing a Canadian competitor from doing the same? A lack of access to corrupt government backchannels.
	▲	bluefirebrand 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Lack of investment probably. No one is investing in Canadian companies. A stupid amount of Canadian investment is in America or overseas, very little is domestic

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gloryjulio 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Canada do have an ai company Cohere that has potential to be big. Personally I do think they are one of the credible competitors.

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maxdo 5 hours ago | parent [-]

are you seriously believe in that? when was last time they produced a model, that is at least in top 20?

	▲	mitthrowaway2 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Remind me which of Palantir's models would it be competing with?
	▲	dreambuffer 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You know Palantir is not an LLM company, right? Their core product is just data integration systems.
	▲	gloryjulio 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think they are in b2b enterprise model space. Privacy is way more important. Not sure if Sota models are needed.

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maxdo 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

we are talking about LLM+hardware.

You as canada have only two options:

1) use closed sourced systems

2) use chinese models, with their own risks

3) hardware, i think it's clear.

Cohere is not even in the list of top competitors .