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Andrew Ng strip: 1976 London boy between two harbors; 2002 Stanford lecture hall; 2011 Google Brain, 16,000 computers learn a cat; 2012 Coursera pours around the globe; 2014-17 Baidu, he walks out; lookout: Ng and Issue the cat in a cable car. HE TAUGHT THE MACHINES. THEN HE TAUGHT EVERYONE ELSE.
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Andrew Ng

GOOGLE BRAIN → COURSERA → EVERYWHERE

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UPDATED Oct 26, 2026

THE DEAL

Ng built the classroom AI learned in: Google Brain founder, 104,000-student MOOC teacher, Coursera cofounder, Baidu's research chief.

SOURCES: Stanford SIEPRCourseraCourseraBaiduDeepLearning.AI

AT A GLANCE

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University · BScAndrew Ng
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · MScAndrew Ng
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EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley · PhDAndrew Ng

THE ARCHIVE

History · cartoons · headlines
THE TIMELINE7 sourced events

104,000 STUDENTS SHOWED UP FOR HIS FIRST AI CLASS

Ng built the classroom AI learned in: Google Brain founder, 104,000-student MOOC teacher, Coursera cofounder, Baidu's research chief. Then came his signature fights: he coined 'data-centric AI' — stop tuning the model, fix the data — against the model-first orthodoxy, and his 'AI is the new electricity' pitch reframed AI as infrastructure, not feature.

  1. 2002

    HE TAKES OVER STANFORD'S AI LAB

    Ng joined Stanford's faculty, building a research program around machine learning and robotics that eventually put him in charge of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

    SOURCES: Stanford SIEPRreported

  2. 2011

    DEEP LEARNING LEAVES THE LAB FOR GOOGLE'S SERVERS

    Ng became the founding lead of Google Brain, helping push deep learning from academic research into Google's industrial-scale computing environment.

    SOURCES: Stanford SIEPRreported

  3. 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.

    SOURCES: Courserafirst-party

  4. 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.

    SOURCES: Courserafirst-party

  5. 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.

    SOURCES: Baidufirst-party

  6. 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.

    SOURCES: DeepLearning.AIfirst-party

  7. 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.

    SOURCES: AI Fundfirst-party

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