There will be 115 scholarships available to students pursuing an AI-related master’s degree between 2019 to 2020. Students can either be working in core technical AI fields, such as deep learning, or related programs like business and healthcare. (BetaKit)

Talking point: The non-profit Vector Institute secured $135 million in public and private money to launch its hub in 2017, which aims to support research in AI. Vector Institute has comparable hubs across Canada, like the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. Canada already has the third-most AI researchers in the world, but with a growing number of them founding companies—185 in the past three years alone—there’s an increasing need for talent. Vector isn’t the only one trying to fill this gap. From the private sector, RBC is also working on proprietary AI research through its Borealis AI lab; the bank launched its own graduate fellowship program early last year.