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AI big shot Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, a startup incubator that backs small teams of experts looking to solve key problems using AI, plans to raise upward of $120 million…

Andrew Ng plans to raise $120M for next AI Fund

If the decisions made by corporate boards of directors can indicate where a company wants to be focusing, Amazon’s board just made an interesting move. The company announced on Thursday…

Amazon, eyeing up AI, adds Andrew Ng to its board — ex-MTV exec McGrath to step down

CEO Andrew Ng says industries should adopt a data-centric approach to building AI, which provides a more efficient way for manufacturers to teach an AI model what to do.

Landing AI brings in $57M for its machine learning operations tools

WhyLabs, a machine learning startup that was spun out of the Allen Institute last year, helps data teams monitor the health of their AI models and the data pipelines that…

WhyLabs raises $10M Series A for its AI observability platform

Finding the right learning platform can be difficult, especially as companies look to upskill and reskill their talent to meet demand.

Workera.ai, a precision upskilling platform, taps $16M to close enterprise skills gap

As companies manufacture goods, human inspectors review them for defects. Think of a scratch on smartphone glass or a weakness in raw steel that could have an impact downstream when…

Landing AI launches new visual inspection platform for manufacturers

Years after Daphne Koller left academia to pursue its reinvention with Coursera, circumstances have conspired to return her to a passion left by the wayside. Big data, machine learning and…

Coursera and Insitro founder Daphne Koller is coming to Disrupt 2020

The contract between the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and ecommerce giant Amazon — for a health information licensing partnership involving its Alexa voice AI — has been released following…

Alexa, where are the legal limits on what Amazon can do with my health data?

After his tenure as chief scientist at Baidu, Andrew Ng, the founder of the Google Brain project and former CEO of Coursera, set up a number of different projects that…

Andrew Ng’s AI companies expand to Medellin, Colombia

The vast enterprise tech category is Silicon Valley’s richest, and today it’s poised to change faster than ever before. That’s probably the biggest reason to come to TechCrunch’s first-ever show…

The five great reasons to attend TechCrunch’s Enterprise show Sept. 5 in SF

As companies collect increasingly large amounts of data about customers, the end game is about improving the customer experience. It’s a term we’re hearing a lot of these days, and…

Adobe’s Amit Ahuja will be talking customer experience at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise

Get ready to experience world-class networking TechCrunch-style at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019. On September 5, more than 1,000 of the top enterprise software minds and makers, movers and shakers will…

CrunchMatch simplifies networking at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

TechCrunch Sessions is back! On September 5, we’re taking on the ferociously competitive field of enterprise software, and thrilled to announce our packed agenda, overflowing with some of the biggest…

Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: Enterprise | San Francisco, September 5

When it comes to applying AI to the world around us, Andrew Ng has few if any peers. We are delighted to announce that the renowned founder, investor, AI expert…

Andrew Ng to talk about how AI will transform business at TC Sessions: Enterprise
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Tencent AI Lab loses key executive

Chinese internet giant Tencent just lost a leading artificial intelligence figure. Zhang Tong, who previously worked at Yahoo, IBM and Baidu, has stepped down after directing Tencent’s AI Lab for…

Tencent AI Lab loses key executive

Baidu, the Chinese search giant, is spinning out its business unit responsible for utility apps and its mobile ad business to sharpen its focus on artificial intelligence. As part of…

Baidu spins out its global ad business to sharpen its focus on artificial intelligence

With traditional university programs getting more expensive and competitive, we’re seeing a boom in the number of alternative programs that are taking advantage of the internet and more flexible teaching…

Coursera teams with 5 universities to expand its full masters and bachelors degree programs

As the founder of the Google Brain deep learning project and co-founder of Coursera, Andrew Ng was one of the most recognizable names in the machine learning community when he…

Andrew Ng officially launches his $175M AI Fund

AI pioneer Andrew Ng is probably best known for his work on the Google Brain project and for leading Baidu’s AI group. After leaving Baidu earlier this year, it wasn’t…

Andrew Ng’s Landing.ai wants to bring artificial intelligence to the manufacturing industry, starting with Foxconn

Apple is spending $1 billion to acquire original content, Workday acquires Pattern, Google Home now lets you make free phone calls and Andrew Ng is starting an AI fund. All…

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Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

We knew that Andrew Ng had more than just a series of deep learning courses up his sleeve when he announced the first phase of his deeplearning.ai last week. It’s…

Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

David Letterman is coming to Netflix, Didi Chuxing backs Careem in the Middle East, Crusie is running an autonomous ride-hailing service and Andrew Ng launches Deeplearning.ai. All this on Crunch…

When Andrew Ng announced Deeplearning.ai back in June, it was hard to know exactly what the AI frontiersman was up to. In his time since departing as Baidu’s chief scientist, Ng…

Deeplearning.ai is Andrew Ng’s new series of deep learning classes on Coursera

Andrew Ng, the former chief scientist of Baidu, announced his next venture, Deeplearning.ai, with only a logo, a domain name and a footnote pointing to an August launch date.

Andrew Ng announces Deeplearning.ai, his new venture after leaving Baidu

Baidu is acquiring xPerception, a U.S. startup specialized in computer vision, according to Reuters. Details are sparse, but we know the startup has its own module for object recognition and…

Baidu is acquiring xPerception, a US startup focused on computer vision

Google Maps launches a location-sharing feature, Coffee Meets Bagel has a new paid membership tier and AI expert Andrew Ng leaves Baidu. All this on Crunch Report.