AI veteran Andrew Ng just can't stop launching new companies

Unlike tennis balls and musketeers, AI ventures don't typically come in threes. The former AI leader at both Google and Baidu has been on an entrepreneurial spree, making his third major announcement in recent months to launch Landing.ai. The startup will help make large manufacturing companies more efficient by using artificial intelligence, according Ng's blog post today (Dec. He also serves as chairman of Coursera, the online education company he cofounded in 2012. Ng writes that his startup and Foxconn will "jointly develop and deploy AI solutions and training globally."