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Andrew Ng raises $175 million for AI fund

By TechTaffy Desk

Former head of Baidu AI group/Google Brain, Coursera co-founder and adjunct professor of Stanford University, Andrew Ng has raised $175 million for his artificial intelligence fund – the AI Fund.

Mr. Ng will be leading the AI Fund as its general partner. Eva Wang, formerly a partner at Fenwick & West will be partner and COO. Steven Syverud, cofounder and CEO of Sycamore, and product/business development manager with Coursera is also joining the fund as partner.

You can find a Medium post by Mr. Ng talking about the fund here.

[Image courtesy: Andrew Ng]

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