What Mila does
Mila (Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute) is a Montreal-based nonprofit research institute focused on advancing machine learning and deep learning through open-science research, education, and technology transfer. It describes itself as a “major university research centre” created through a collaboration between Université de Montréal and McGill University (with additional involvement from Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal), and it positions its mission around producing frontier scientific advances while accelerating responsible adoption and societal benefit of AI. Mila’s research community works across multiple domains (including health, environment and climate change, and AI ethics) and emphasizes open science and knowledge transfer as part of how research becomes broader impact. Mila also maintains an “innovation hub” function for industry by supporting applied research projects and technology transfer, and it operates programs aimed at training students and upskilling stakeholders across academia, industry, and policy.