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Andrew Ng

Andrew Ng's file: Stanford, Google Brain, Baidu, Coursera, DeepLearning.AI, and the educator-builder who helped turn modern AI into a mass profession.

Ng helped turn deep learning into an industrial discipline and AI education into a mass-market product: Google Brain, a 104,000-student Stanford MOOC, Coursera, Baidu Research, DeepLearning.AI, and then an AI venture studio.

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HOW THE HELL DID ANDREW NG GET HERE?

  1. 2011

    104,000 PEOPLE SHOW UP FOR HIS MACHINE-LEARNING CLASS

    Ng taught his first machine-learning MOOC to 104,000 learners, an experiment he later said directly led to the founding of Coursera.

    RECEIPTS: Courserafirst-party

  2. 2012

    THE ONLINE CLASS BECOMES COURSERA

    Ng and Daphne Koller launched Coursera after Stanford's early online-course experiments, turning university courses into a global online platform.

    RECEIPTS: Courserafirst-party

  3. May 16, 2014

    BAIDU HANDS HIM ITS RESEARCH OPERATION

    Baidu appointed Ng chief scientist and head of Baidu Research, putting him over AI labs in Silicon Valley and Beijing after his work leading Google's deep-learning team.

    RECEIPTS: Baidufirst-party

  4. 2017

    HE BUILDS AN AI SCHOOL FOR THE WHOLE INTERNET

    Ng founded DeepLearning.AI to provide large-scale technical AI education and help grow the global machine-learning workforce.

    RECEIPTS: DeepLearning.AIfirst-party

  5. 2018

    THE TEACHER STARTS A FACTORY FOR AI COMPANIES

    Ng founded AI Fund in 2018, creating a venture studio designed to build AI companies with entrepreneurs and corporate partners.

    RECEIPTS: AI Fundfirst-party

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