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# Great North Collective 🇨🇦 **Canadian sovereign AI — open source collaboration for models, data, and infrastructure built by and for Canadians.**
--- ## About Great North Collective is an open community of Canadian researchers, engineers, companies, builders, and institutions working together to advance **sovereign AI** in Canada. We believe Canada should control its own AI future — the models, the data, the infrastructure, and the values that shape them. We focus on: - Open-source models and datasets - Canadian data sovereignty and privacy realities - Northern and remote infrastructure challenges - Reducing reliance on foreign AI platforms - Collaboration across universities, startups, governments, and individuals ## Get Involved - **Join the organization** on Hugging Face - Star and contribute to our repos - Share your Canadian datasets and models - Help define our technical roadmap and governance We are just getting started. If you're building AI in Canada (or for Canada), this is your home. ## Current Focus Areas - Sovereign foundation models - High-quality Canadian language & cultural datasets - Efficient training and inference for northern / low-resource environments - Evaluation benchmarks that reflect Canadian contexts - Open tooling and infrastructure ## Contact & Links - Organization: [huggingface.co/GreatNorthCollective](https://huggingface.co/GreatNorthCollective) - Discussions: Use the Discussions tab in this repo or any of our project repos ---
Built in the North. For the North. For Canada. 🇨🇦