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Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, originally the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (LISA), was founded in 1993 by Professor Yoshua Bengio at the Universite de Montreal. Bengio, who received the 2018 ACM Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for foundational work on deep learning, remains the most-cited living scientist across all fields by total citations. Mila acquired nonprofit status in 2018 and has grown into the world's largest academic deep learning research center.
The institute is a unique collaboration between Universite de Montreal and McGill University, in close partnership with Polytechnique Montreal and HEC Montreal, and also welcomes professors from Universite Laval, Universite de Sherbrooke, Ecole de technologie superieure, and Concordia University. As of late 2025, the Mila community includes over 1,400 individuals, with more than 140 affiliated professors and over 1,200 student researchers. Mila-affiliated faculty have over 650 projects underway and publish more than 700 peer-reviewed articles annually, with strong representation at top conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML…
Mila's theory of change rests on the premise that concentrating world-class AI research talent in an academic setting, with responsible AI as a core strategic pillar, can shape the trajectory of AI development toward beneficial outcomes. By training the next generation of AI researchers with safety and ethics as integral values, conducting foundational research on alignment, fairness, robustness, and interpretability, and translating these findings into policy recommendations and real-world safeguards (such as the AI Safety Studio), Mila aims to ensure that advanced AI systems are developed responsibly. The institute's influence extends through its founder Yoshua Bengio's global advocacy for AI safety regulation, its contributions to international AI safety reports and policy frameworks, and its position as a central node in Canada's national AI strategy. Mila believes that by embedding safety research within a top-tier AI research institution rather than treating it as a separate endeavor, safety considerations will be more deeply integrated into the mainstream of AI development.
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View on grantmaking.aiThe Montréal Sovereign AI Research Hub is an infrastructure project led by Mila, Hypertec, and 5C to anchor sovereign AI capacity in Canada. Based at Hypertec’s new LaSalle campus, it will provide secure access to advanced compute, support benchmarking and scaling research, and host operations for Hypertec, 5C, and Mila’s research community to accelerate adoption of AI by Canadian researchers, startups, and industry.
The Mila AI Policy Fellowship is a fully funded, six‑month program that brings together experts from AI, social sciences, humanities, and public policy to co‑develop evidence‑based guidance, public events, and policy briefs for local and global decision‑makers on issues such as AI governance, systemic risk, and inclusion.
The AI Safety Studio is Mila’s hub for technical and socio‑technical AI safety research. It convenes researchers, clinicians, and policy experts to study harms from large language models and design independent safety metrics, guardrails, and interventions · such as improved safeguards for conversational agents used by youth · to reduce risks like suicide and "AI psychosis" linked to chatbot use.
The Venture Scientist Bootcamp is a full‑time, four‑month venture‑building program hosted at Mila that embeds technically elite PhD students, postdocs, and STEM graduates in an operator‑led environment. Participants receive a $10,000 stipend per founder, dedicated office space in Montréal, intensive coaching, AI‑focused programming, and access to Mila’s research and investor network to validate problems, build and ship products, and reach early traction before demo day.