AI Infrastructure: Key Takeaways from the Summer on the Road
This summer, 5C spent weeks on the road, from OCP Canada Tech Day in Montreal to VivaTech and the RAISE Summit in Paris, engaging with the people shaping the physical infrastructure behind AI: engineers, technology partners, industry leaders, and the communities where this infrastructure is being built. Here are some key takeaways from the sessions and conversations along the way that are worth revisiting.
A Milestone Week for 5C at RAISE Summit 2026
RAISE Summit 2026 was a defining moment for 5C. From making our exhibition debut to announcing a strategic collaboration with AMD and sharing the Master Stage to discuss the future of AI infrastructure, the week highlighted how rapidly the AI ecosystem is evolving—and why purpose-built infrastructure has never been more critical. Here's a recap of the milestones from the week that made Paris unforgettable for the 5C team.
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Building AI, Closer to Home
For a country of roughly 40 million people, Canada has consistently punched above its weight in artificial intelligence for more than a decade. Its researchers pioneered the deep learning breakthroughs that now power everything from voice assistants to drug discovery, a legacy cemented by the 2018 Turing Award (often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing") awarded to three pioneers of deep learning, two of whom are closely associated with Canada. Its universities have produced a generation of AI talent that the world came to recruit. And yet, when it came time to actually build the infrastructure that runs AI at scale: the servers, the clusters, the factories of compute, the hardware was in many cases sourced from outside Canada.
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Looking back at NVIDIA GTC26: Recap
The doors have officially closed on another incredible NVIDIA GTC, but the real work continues. Year after year, GTC has remained a powerful technology showcase, and this edition was no exception. What stood out this time was a clear shift in emphasis toward the physical reality of making AI happen, how we actually plan to build it, connect it, and power it at scale.
2025 in Review: Building Next-Gen AI Factories
2025 was a year filled with milestones and proud moments for 5C. Over the course of the year, we saw ongoing progress across many fronts, each step reinforcing the direction we are headed and the work we set out to do.
