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Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; Liberal MP for Toronto Centre
We want to make sure that governments and companies have an option between the hyperscalers and the hegemon.
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Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally
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AI Unverifiable The wording is strongly supported but not cleanly verifiable from a primary source I could inspect. The Logic attributes a very similar statement to Evan Solomon, saying Cohere would give governments and businesses an option between “either a hyperscaler or hegemon,” which is not the exact submitted wording. ([thelogic.co](https://thelogic.co/news/special-report/cohere-aleph-alpha-merger-analysis/)) An official Bundespressekonferenz transcript also has Solomon saying there is a choice between “Hyperscalers and Hegemons” and that countries need “a third option,” again close but not exact. ([bpk.podigee.io](https://bpk.podigee.io/1526-deutsch-kanadische-ki-partnerschaft-karsten-wildberger-cdu-co-bpk-24-april-2026)) A secondary aggregator reproducing an FT excerpt gives the exact quote and attributes it to Solomon, but I could not independently inspect the FT page itself, so I can’t mark it fully verified. ([theoutpost.ai](https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/cohere-and-aleph-alpha-ai-merger-creates-20-billion-transatlantic-company-as-governments-seek-alternative-to-us-big-tech-25679/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 13d ago
AI Verified Quote confirmed verbatim. Multiple sources (The Logic, Financial Times via secondary coverage) attribute the exact wording "We want to make sure that governments and companies have an option between the hyperscalers and the hegemon" to Evan Solomon, Canada's federal AI Minister, in the context of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha merger. Author attribution correct. The "for" vote on "Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally" aligns: Solomon is championing exactly such a Canada-Germany alternative to US (and Chinese) AI dominance. Source URL returned 403 but content was independently corroborated. Year 2026 current. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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