Jaxson Khan

I've been teaching a master's course on AI at @UofT 's @munkschool - and I'm excited to share it with you! One of the best parts has been the calibre of guest lecturers: folks from @AnthropicAI @GoogleDeepMind and @law_ai_. This week, Mark Surman — @mozilla President and one of the most important voices on open source AI — came by and gave us a fantastic walkthrough of how he's thinking about the evolution of the internet to frontier AI, and Canada's role as a middle power. When I told him about the course, his first reaction: "You should open source it." So we did. Full syllabus and a couple AI agents and resources we've built together — all on GitHub: github.com/jaxson/ai-poli… Covers everything from the AI supply chain to frontier model governance to hands-on prototyping. More materials and agents coming at the end of term. Feel free to use it, remix it, share it. And remember a future with plenty of open source AI is a good one!

@BrettEHouse Thank you @BrettEHouse! Look forward to catching up soon.

@jaxson Nice work!

Update: I'm launching something I've wanted to for awhile canadaaipolicy.com. Here's a gap I keep running into. Canadian AI policy is moving fast — a new AI strategy coming up, provincial moves, federal procurement shifts, funding announcements, new organizations, international commitments — but the conversation is scattered across dozens of sites, PDFs, consultations, and press releases. Interested executives, public servants, board directors, journalists, and students I talk to every week often describe the same problem: how do I get started? Where are the best resources? So I built a simple one page website, a curated list. canadaaipolicy.com is a hub of AI policy resources with a Canada lens. It brings together many of the key primers I wish I had when I first started working on this. It pulls from my course syllabus at University of Toronto as well as a number of other resources. It is the site I have wanted to send people before meetings or talks. A few things it is, and a few things it isn't. - It is a starting point — definitely not comprehensive! It is a front door.  - It is opinionated in what it links to, because signal matters more than volume. I also do link to a couple of my own reports (although the vast majority is other sources). - It is not a substitute for the deep work being done at CIFAR, the Vector Institute, Mila, Amii, the AI Competitiveness Project at the Munk School, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and many others. I definitely encourage you to read those reports and that policy work if you want to go deeper! My hope is that this becomes a useful default starting point for anyone trying to get serious about AI policy particularly in Canada for students, policymakers, boards, executives, reporters, visiting delegations. I've tried to link to things that I agree with and also some that I have more differences with or skepticism around to provide balanced perspectives. I believe the stronger our shared baseline and facts, the better our arguments get. I will be adding to it regularly: new reports, consultations to watch, institutions to know, and a reading list that reflects the best of what Canadians (and friends of Canada) are publishing. Feel free to visit canadaaipolicy.com and bookmark it. And please — tell me what is missing. If you see major gaps, corrections, resources I haven't surfaced yet: I want them, feel free to message me. Bottom line -- Canada punches above its weight in AI research. And we have some great AI companies on the rise. But we should punch above our weight in AI policy too. P.S. I built this in one day using AI as part of the tinyailab.ai challenge! Check it out for your weekly challenge.

Thanks to @CBC and @PaulHaavardsrud for having me on @cbccostofliving to talk about the latest AI model from Anthropic, Claude Mythos. My non-scientific opinions for weekend listening! cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

@JimboStanford Thanks for the very kind words Jim. I'll keep it coming!

That's an astoundingly rich and useful resource Jaxson, and you are super-generous for sharing it. Thank you! 🙏 #cdnecon

Big news as @cohere expands globally, merging with Aleph Alpha in Germany to focus on sovereign AI.

@aidangomez I recently had Vector again for the first time in a decade and it was a game-changer.

Feels like nobody fighting in the cereal arena these days. Haven’t eaten cereal in years.

@PsudoMike Clarification: Canadian companies can be part of a multi-partner collaboration for the program. But the lead applicant must be a non-profit or post-secondary organization.

Canada opened applications for $890M of sovereign AI compute this week. Only nonprofits and universities can apply. Microsoft just committed $7.5B for its own Canadian data centres. A Canadian builder running a startup cannot touch the public program directly. Sovereignty that skips the people building companies here is mostly a procurement story.

Some fan shots of beautiful Toronto in the fog yesterday

The #GC is accepting applications for the AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program to build, operate and maintain a large-scale, AI-optimized high-performance computing system. Learn more and apply: ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/a…

The Montreal Expos are exiting the baseball space. During Q2 and Q3 2026, we will transition to acquiring high-performance GPU assets. This is all part of our long-term vision to become a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and AI-native cloud solutions provider.

Canada launches national initiative to build large-scale AI supercomputing capacity ow.ly/O32V106xhpu

AI sovereignty can sound abstract until you realize it touches the systems, infrastructure, and dependencies that increasingly shape economic resilience, public trust, and virtually every future industry. I joined @StackhouseJohn on @RBC Disruptors and @Yoshua_Bengio of @LawZero_ to talk about Canada’s AI sovereignty challenge, what is at stake in cloud, compute, and control of the stack. We also connected these discussions to a bigger conversation with Yoshua Bengio on AI safety and trustworthy AI. I focussed on discussing the recent paper, Sovereign by Design, that I co-authored with @MullinSean on why Canada still has a window to shape outcomes on AI sovereignty - and options for what we can do. Listen here: lnkd.in/evzVVHs2 Read the paper: lnkd.in/e6dzYiF2

@robjama Lots of plants/park courtyard.

thinking about what the dream builder space in Toronto looks like. - probably in the spadina area - curated coworking for startups and free agents - regular educational workshops and meetups - half court that doubles as event space - media studio for podcasts and video production - gym with squat rack and pull up bars - premo coffee and a majlis for the vibes what's missing?

Thanks to @ISOC_Live for sharing the transcript and stream of our recent panel on the Canadian AI strategy.

Interesting! I feel like things are moving faster than ever. @XanaduAI went public for $3B+ USD to build a quantum data centre by 2030. @cohere's revenue + new deals seem to be accelerating. And @KeplerComms launched a constellation of optical relay satellites into orbit! All from TO!

I’m either going to leave Toronto soon or start really tightening up my focus here and expecting more from everyone around me. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, as a character on screen, I just want to be honest at each stage, the intensity and output hasn’t been hitting for me. The precision in visions and the fight feel off to me.

Imagine having this view as you’re commuting home. The Artemis 2 crew is now falling to Earth, picking up speed every second as gravity relentlessly pulls them. When they plow into the upper atmosphere they’ll be the fastest humans in history - with nothing but air to slow them

For the first time in over 50 years, humans saw the Moon from up-close. 🌕✨ Science is beautiful! More photos here: nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-…

Ok last one: the rarest solar eclipse of all time. Only 4 people have seen this with their naked eyes. The sun is fully behind the moon. The only faint light hitting the near side is reflecting off of earth, 250,000 miles away. And the stars and galaxies in the background, sheesh Nikon Z9 f/2.0 2 second exposure ISO 1600 @NASA: flickr.com/photos/nasa2ex…

4 people are in there with hopes, dreams, risk and the unknown. It makes me breathless, knowing how they're feeling and what they're facing. So exciting to see what we're capable of when we work together in common purpose, deciding to push back the edges of our collective ignorance. Have a great voyage, crew of @NASAArtemis!

One last message before the launch of Artemis II...