Canadian incumbents launch AI infrastructure consortium

Shared control infrastructure reduces duplicated engineering and governance work for regulated enterprises, changing the cost and operational model for large-scale AI deployments. Scotiabank, Sun Life, TELUS and Toronto-based consultancy Lightworks announced the creation of the AI Consortium, a membership group that will jointly build and govern enterprise AI control systems, according to a CNW/Lightworks press release. The consortium's flagship system, the Agentic Control Plane, is described as already running in production and providing visibility and control across models, agents, users and inference pipelines, the release says. The CNW release also states the Agentic Control Plane currently processes more than two trillion tokens per month across members. BetaKit reports Lightworks founder John Painter helped build the group over the last 18 months and that other firms are invited to join.