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NAIRL Partners with Canada’s IVADO for Global AI Collaboration

December 29, 2025

Ki-Eung Kim, Director of the National AI Research Lab (left), and Luc Vinet, CEO of IVADO (right), pose for a commemorative photo after signing the Memorandum of Understanding at the Québec Government Office in Japan in Tokyo on the 23rd.

The National AI Research Lab (NAIRL) announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with IVADO, a prominent Canadian AI research consortium, to promote strategic cooperation in artificial intelligence.

Through this agreement, the two institutions will pursue comprehensive cooperation—including joint research in foundational and applied AI, researcher exchanges, and network expansion—to further build a global AI research ecosystem linking Asia and North America.

Director Kim Ki-eung emphasized that guaranteeing autonomy and diversity is the shortest path to securing innovative AI technologies, expressing his commitment to establishing a robust center-to-center global collaboration model with IVADO.

Check out more details in the article below.
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