Vector Institute is an independent not-for-profit artificial intelligence research institute co-founded by Geoffrey Hinton, Raquel Urtasun, and Richard Zemel, with assistance from the University of Toronto at its start-up. Vector Institute's Twitter Score is 11 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #84,468 among 486,573 tracked accounts.
Vector Institute launched with $135 million in funding from Canadian governments and more than 40 industry partners, including backing from the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, and Georgian as a Founding Gold Sponsor. The institute does not admit students or grant degrees, focusing instead on machine learning, deep learning, AI safety, research talent development, and practical AI adoption by Canadian organizations.
Vector Institute operates within the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, led by CIFAR, which promotes collaboration among Vector, Mila, Quebec AI Institute, and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. The account remains active on X, with recent posts promoting its Remarkable 2026 event. Vector Institute publishes 4,206 posts and has been mentioned by 31 accounts a total of 59 times.
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The accounts that follow Vector Institute include 56 founders, 14 angel investors, 10 influencers and 8 VCs, among them Fred Ehrsam, Jason, Ethan Buchman, Jeff Dean, Christian Catalini and Fei-Fei Li.