AI assistants
Canadian alternatives to ChatGPT
ChatGPT: ChatGPT offers Canadian storage, but you have to choose it, and it may depend on your plan. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
Run it yourself
Software you install on servers you choose. The vendor never holds your data.
North (agents, search, automations), deployed privately or on Cohere's Model Vault
- Stored in Canada?
- If you host it yourself
- Owner
- Cohere Inc. (Toronto, ON), "a Canadian company subject to Canadian federal privacy laws"
- Servers run by
- Your own servers or VPC, a cloud of your choice, or Cohere's Model Vault · Owner not stated
The Canadian-owned assistant in this category. Cohere says it "does not have access to data processed in connection with the use of Cohere models or products in Private Deployments". North is not on Cohere's shared SaaS, which is "Available for model deployments only".
If storage in Canada is enough
These are US-owned but can keep data in Canada. They meet most storage rules; they do not meet an ownership test.
Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat (now named Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Chat), including Copilot Cowork
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
- Servers run by
- Microsoft data centres; Anthropic as a subprocessor for Claude models · US company
Stored in Canada by contract, processed outside it until Microsoft's in-country processing reaches Canada. An admin can turn Anthropic's models off in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
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