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?
Canada do have an ai company Cohere that has potential to be big. Personally I do think they are one of the credible competitors.
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 .
Because govtech is notoriously difficult to break in to.