Lightworks, Scotiabank, Sun Life and TELUS today announced the launch of the AI Consortium, a trailblazing model bringing together some of Canada's largest and most regulated organizations to build and govern the critical infrastructure needed to implement artificial intelligence (AI) safely, responsibly and at enterprise scale.
Many of the core challenges large, regulated institutions face when implementing AI are shared, from integrating diverse standards, platforms and technologies to maintaining governance, oversight and operational control as AI use scales. The Consortium enables members to pool hands-on engineering, conduct deep research and align interests to jointly build and govern mission-critical AI control systems and intellectual property they would otherwise develop independently, with resulting IP deployed individually and available to members through perpetual-use and ownership rights.
The AI Consortium's flagship program, the Agentic Control Plane (ACP), is already running in production in regulated environments. The ACP gives enterprises the visibility and control needed to manage Agentic AI at scale, across models, agents, users and inference pipelines. It helps support regulatory compliance, maintain operational control and currently processes more than two trillion tokens per month across member organizations.
Future Consortium projects, optional to each member, include:
- AI Operations Center (AI-OC): providing enhanced technical and operational awareness across members to improve performance, resilience and cost management.
- AI Token Exchange (AI-TX): aligning the interests and benefits of collective scale across members, simplifying and expanding access to sovereign AI factories, and delivering capabilities that may not be feasible or efficient for individual institutions to implement alone.
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