Indigenous AI tech startup wâsikan kisewâtisiwin (wuh-see-gah-n key-su-wat-su-win) and TELUS have entered a partnership where TELUS becomes the startup’s first beta tester. The AI technology is designed to help improve education about Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Under the agreement, wâsikan kisewâtisiwin’s AI is hosted on and powered by the TELUS Sovereign AI Factory, which i Canada’s first fully sovereign facility.
The AI provides authenticated, Indigenous-informed guidance and education to users writing about and researching Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The benefits are mutual: more than 300 TELUS testers are participating in the formal pilot with access to the wâsikan kisewâtisiwin AI model within Fuel iX™, TELUS’ enterprise-grade generative AI platform. The feedback from TELUS is actively helping train and refine the technology while improving accuracy and usability for future users. In addition to the formal pilot, thousands of other TELUS team members have access to the tool.
The TELUS Sovereign AI Factory, in Rimouski, Quebec, opened in September 2025 and is recognized as Canada’s most powerful supercomputer on the prestigious global TOP500 list. Sovereign-by-Design, the facility powered by over 99% renewable energy, uses natural cooling systems that reduce water consumption by more than 75% compared to conventional data centres, and ensures all AI computing is processed, stored and managed entirely within Canada.
Earlier this week, TELUS announced it will scale its Sovereign AI Factory network across three world-class facilities in British Columbia, delivering one of the world’s most powerful and sustainable AI infrastructure clusters – all built on Canadian soil. The first will open in Kamloops later this year, with the additional two in Vancouver set to open between 2026 and 2028. wâsikan kisewâtisiwin is also being made available through TELUS’ Fuel iX Platform– an innovative, enterprise-grade generative AI platform purpose-built to help organizations develop, manage and monitor Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI solutions securely and at scale.
wâsikan kisewâtisiwin anticipates their AI will be publicly available this fall and is currently accepting applications from organizations interested in investment and beta testing. For more information, please contact: tansi@wasikankisewatisiwin.ca.
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Kind electricity – wâsikan kisewâtisiwin joins TELUS Sovereign AI Factory to power reconciliation with care
Indigenous AI tech startup wâsikan kisewâtisiwin (wuh-see-gah-n key-su-wat-su-win) and TELUS have entered a partnership where TELUS becomes the startup’s first beta tester. The AI technology is designed to help improve education about Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Under the agreement, wâsikan kisewâtisiwin’s AI is hosted on and powered by the TELUS Sovereign AI Factory, which i Canada’s first fully sovereign facility.
The AI provides authenticated, Indigenous-informed guidance and education to users writing about and researching Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The benefits are mutual: more than 300 TELUS testers are participating in the formal pilot with access to the wâsikan kisewâtisiwin AI model within Fuel iX™, TELUS’ enterprise-grade generative AI platform. The feedback from TELUS is actively helping train and refine the technology while improving accuracy and usability for future users. In addition to the formal pilot, thousands of other TELUS team members have access to the tool.
The TELUS Sovereign AI Factory, in Rimouski, Quebec, opened in September 2025 and is recognized as Canada’s most powerful supercomputer on the prestigious global TOP500 list. Sovereign-by-Design, the facility powered by over 99% renewable energy, uses natural cooling systems that reduce water consumption by more than 75% compared to conventional data centres, and ensures all AI computing is processed, stored and managed entirely within Canada.
Earlier this week, TELUS announced it will scale its Sovereign AI Factory network across three world-class facilities in British Columbia, delivering one of the world’s most powerful and sustainable AI infrastructure clusters – all built on Canadian soil. The first will open in Kamloops later this year, with the additional two in Vancouver set to open between 2026 and 2028. wâsikan kisewâtisiwin is also being made available through TELUS’ Fuel iX Platform– an innovative, enterprise-grade generative AI platform purpose-built to help organizations develop, manage and monitor Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI solutions securely and at scale.
wâsikan kisewâtisiwin anticipates their AI will be publicly available this fall and is currently accepting applications from organizations interested in investment and beta testing. For more information, please contact: tansi@wasikankisewatisiwin.ca.
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