Rumor: Baidu Hires Stanford AI Lab Director
Tencent Tech, 5/14/14
According to an industry source, Andrew Ng, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-founder of online educational platform Coursera, will join Chinese internet company Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU). According to the source, Ng will oversee Baidu's artificial intelligence department, Baidu Brain. Baidu has yet to comment on the rumor.
Ng's research involves robotics and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on deep learning.
Editor's Note: For more information on this topic, please see "Baidu Opens Deep Learning Lab in Silicon Valley," MD 4/12/13 and "Ex-Facebook Deep Learning Scientist Joins Baidu," MD 5/10/13 issues.
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