Anthropic's Claude is still not available in Canada either. Anyone have insight into why its difficult to bring these AI models to Canada when on the surface its political and legal landscape isn't all that different from the US?
that wouldn't explain why Anthropic is excluding canada.
I'm guessing the online news act is a contributor, but only to a more general conclusion of our content laws being complicated (CanCon, language laws, pipeda erasure rules, the new right to be forgotten, etc) and our country simply doesn't have enough people to be worth the effort of figuring out what's legal and what isn't.
Google's embargo seemed to relate to their battle with the Canadian government over news. Given that they settled on that I'd expect its availability very soon.
Anthropic is a bit weird and it almost seems more like lazy gating. It's available in the US and UK, but no EU, no Canada, no Australia.
>Canadian lawmakers recently introduced legislation aimed at regulating AI. The Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) mandates assessments, risk management, monitoring, data anonymization, transparency, and record-keeping practices around AI systems. AIDA would also introduce penalties of up to 3% of a company’s global revenue or $10 million.
These idiots don't seem to realize that a VPN bypasses all of their silly compliance BS.
