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.

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.

The programme covers Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The first new projects are already under way in energy, farming and manufacturing.

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.…