Andrew Ng to launch Deeplearning.ai months after departure from Baidu

Former Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng today announced plans to launch a new business called Deeplearning.ai. The company launched with little information about what to expect beyond an exploration of the "frontiers of AI," but alludes to additional details being shared in August about Deeplearning.ai's Deep learning is a type of AI that involves training large artificial neural networks on a pool of information, then getting them to make inferences about new data. Considered one of the top minds in deep learning today, Ng left Baidu in March and was with the company since 2014 following work as cocreator of the Google Brain AI research project. Ng has also worked as director of the Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) and is cofounder of online education company Coursera.