Scientific Director of Baidu AI left the post and founded a new company

Andrew ng is known for his work on the Google Brain AI, he previously worked at Stanford University, where he developed together with colleagues the educational platform Coursera, and later moved to Baidu, the Chinese Internet giant, where he developed programs deep machine learning and participated in the creation of programs of computer vision and unmanned control of the car. The other day Andrew announced via Twitter that he was leaving Baidu to start my own company, which promised to tell later.

Judging by the name, the company Deeplearning.ai is to develop artificial intelligence and related research.

Against the background of recent optimistic statements of the head of Baidu care of one of the key personnel is not very good. Many began to suspect that things at the company aren’t going well. Shares of the Internet giant after the news dropped a few points. The official response to the departure of the UN from Baidu was not followed, so, apparently, for the company it is not so critical.

Scientific Director of Baidu AI left the post and founded a new company
Vyacheslav Larionov


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