Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for the opening testimony from our witnesses today. It's great to see Canadian companies doing extraordinary work to ensure data sovereignty and our sovereign AI capacity.
To start off, I have a few questions for Cohere.
Madam Pineau, it's a pleasure to have you here.
As I mentioned, I think Canadians are increasingly concerned about our sovereign capacity and critical industries, AI being an emerging and increasingly critical industry, as you well know. They want us to be self-reliant.
It seems that your company has been billed as sort of the sovereign AI company for Canada to build that future and also for government to be a key customer of yours. In brief, can you highlight for the committee what makes Cohere unique vis-à-vis the others here today and other actors in Canada in supporting Canada's sovereign AI capacity, and why is that specifically important?