--- title: Canada adds C$2.5M to help 25 more Prairie firms adopt... description: Amii will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to build their own AI tools. Federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/canada-adds-c-2-5m-to-help-25-more-prairie-firms-adopt-ai-with-amii-qibo3f4dg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Canada adds C$2.5M to help 25 more Prairie firms adopt AI with Amii | daily.dev og:description: Amii will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to build their own AI tools. Federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/canada-adds-c-2-5m-to-help-25-more-prairie-firms-adopt-ai-with-amii-qibo3f4dg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Qibo3F4Dg.png og:image:alt: Canada adds C$2.5M to help 25 more Prairie firms adopt AI with Amii og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Canada adds C$2.5M to help 25 more Prairie firms adopt AI with Amii **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amii will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to build their own AI tools. Federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M, bringing total federal support to C$5.6M. The programme has worked with 30 firms since it started in 2024, including Croptimistic, which uses cameras on crop sprayers to distinguish young wheat and oats from weeds. Amii places an AI expert inside each company, and the firm keeps ownership and runs the tool itself once the project ends. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much funding has PrairiesCan given Amii to help small businesses adopt AI? PrairiesCan has given a total of C$5.6M to Amii's AI adoption program for small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The program started in 2024 with C$3M and received an additional C$2.5M to expand to 25 more firms, after already working with 30 companies. _Track how government-backed AI adoption programs are funded and scaled on daily.dev._ ### What does Amii do for small businesses adopting AI? Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, places an AI expert inside each participating company to work with staff on their own data. The business owns whatever AI tool gets built and learns to operate it independently once the engagement ends. Example projects include Croptimistic's crop-sprayer cameras that distinguish young wheat and oats from weeds. _Developers evaluating real-world AI adoption models can follow cases like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy with papal nudge on safety](https://daily.dev/posts/canada-unveils-2-3bn-ai-strategy-with-papal-nudge-on-safety-fdbq6auen) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Oh, Canada: Why Our AI Future is Open](https://daily.dev/posts/oh-canada-why-our-ai-future-is-open-br2baw8fj) · Linux Foundation · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-government-will-buy-tech-to-boost-ai-sector-in-130m-growth-push-4fzus5e59) · Ars Technica · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/canada-adds-c-2-5m-to-help-25-more-prairie-firms-adopt-ai-with-amii-qibo3f4dg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Canada adds C$2.5M to help 25 more Prairie firms adopt AI with Amii","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/canada-adds-c-2-5m-to-help-25-more-prairie-firms-adopt-ai-with-amii-qibo3f4dg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/canada-adds-c-2-5m-to-help-25-more-prairie-firms-adopt-ai-with-amii-qibo3f4dg"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T17:57:36.676Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T18:06:29.235Z","description":"Amii will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to build their own AI tools. 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