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TELUS opens Canada's first fully sovereign AI Factory to startups and small businesses through L-SPARK collaboration
TELUS and L-SPARK today announced a new partnership to provide Canadian startups and innovators with access to the TELUS Sovereign AI Factory – Canada's fastest and most powerful supercomputer – addressing a critical barrier facing Canadian AI startups: access to high-performance compute infrastructure without relocating or building on foreign platforms.
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