{"id":88934,"date":"2019-03-25T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T01:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/billionaire-power-couple-give-75-million-for-canadian-ai-push"},"modified":"2019-03-25T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T01:02:32","slug":"billionaire-power-couple-give-75-million-for-canadian-ai-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/billionaire-power-couple-give-75-million-for-canadian-ai-push","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Power Couple Give $75 Million for Canadian AI Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/billionaire-power-couple-give-75-million-for-canadian-ai-push2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s billionaire power couple, Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman, have donated C$100 million ($75 million) to the University of Toronto for an artificial intelligence complex.<\/p>\n<p>The gift, from the duo behind private-equity firm Onex Corp. and Indigo Books &amp; Music Inc., is the largest in the university\u2019s history and biggest for Canada\u2019s technology sector, said the academic institution. It will be used to build the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre starting this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve seen companies like Uber and Google and so many others starting to make real commitments to Toronto, and this is drawing people from around the world to come to Toronto to be part of this,\u201d Schwartz, Onex\u2019s founder and chief executive officer, said in an interview at Indigo\u2019s headquarters in the city. \u201cThat legacy is going to last for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-25\/billionaire-power-couple-give-75-million-for-canadian-ai-push\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019&#45;03&#45;25\/b...an-ai-push<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s billionaire power couple, Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman, have donated C$100 million ($75 million) to the University of Toronto for an artificial intelligence complex. The gift, from the duo behind private-equity firm Onex Corp. and Indigo Books &amp; Music Inc., is the largest in the university\u2019s history and biggest for Canada\u2019s technology sector, said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}