Father of AI Geoffrey Hinton bets on Canada in tariff war with US; says, unlike America, Canada welcomes immigration; lead engineer lost H1-B visa

In the 1980s, Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton took an unconventional gamble, leaving a well-funded post at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue an obscure, little-studied corner of machine learning at the University of Toronto. Four decades later, that foundational work has reshaped how modern artificial intelligence operates while transforming Canada’s largest metropolis into a powerhouse tech capital, CNN reported.

While California has long reigned as the epicenter of global tech, an influential artificial intelligence ecosystem has emerged around Hinton in Ontario.