On Tuesday, Anthropic announced it is committing $10 million CAD to fund research into “beneficial and responsible applications of AI,” partnering with Edmonton’s Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, Montréal’s Mila, Toronto’s Vector Institute, CHEO, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Université Laval, University of Toronto (UofT), and the University of Saskatchewan. Each institution will receive $1 million in Claude credits, and Anthropic will not have control over research directions or findings. Amii, Mila, and Vector are also joining the Anthropic for Startups program. According to data Anthropic released, Canada ranks eighth in the world for Claude usage at 2.6 percent, but second by AI usage index—behind the United States and above the United Kingdom and South Korea. Anthropic noted that the University of Toronto and Université de Montréal led research into neural networks, while University of Alberta researchers made headway in reinforcement learning.