Artificial intelligence genius Andrew Ng has another AI project in the works – Digital Trends

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AI promises to transform the world. Companies like this one will pave the way.

Hes been called one of the foremost thinkers on the topic of artificial intelligence, so its no surprise that Andrew Ng the cofounder of Coursera, the lead developer ofStanford Universitys main Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform, and the founder of the Google Brain project is starting another AI company of his own now that hes left Baidu. The resume of this impressive entrepreneur reads like a laundry list of some of the most impressive achievements in AI technology, and it seems safe to assume that Ngs newest venture, known only as deeplearning.ai, wont disappoint.

While Ng has founded and led many of his own projects in the past, he was most recently attached to another behemoth of a company Chinese web giant Baidu. There, Ng was chief scientist and headed the companys (what else) Artificial Intelligence Group, turning the Beijing-based giant into one of only a handful of companies in the world with expertise in each of the major AI categories: speech,natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, and knowledge graph. Ngs team was also responsible for bringing two new business groups into the company autonomous driving and the DuerOS Conversational Computing platform.

Three months ago, Ng announced his departure from the company, noting in aMedium post, Baidus AI is incredibly strong, and the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish. After Baidu, I am excited to continue working toward the AI transformation of our society and the use of AI to make life better for everyone.

At the time, he told Forbes that his future plans were still in flux: I am looking into quite a few ideas in parallel, and exploring new AI businesses that I can build. One thing that excites me is finding ways to support the global AI community so that people everywhere can access the knowledge and tools that they need to make AI transformations.

And that may just be what deeplearning.ai is all about. In his Twitter announcement, Ng said only that he hoped the company would help many of you, and promised more announcements soon. Until then, well wait with bated breath.

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Artificial intelligence genius Andrew Ng has another AI project in the works - Digital Trends