The founder of Google Brain research lab, Andrew Ng, has raised $57 million in Series A funding for his startup -- Landing AI, led by McRock Capital, the first investment firm focused exclusively on the Industrial IoT. AI pioneer Andrew Ng's startup provides tools that make building and deploying AI systems in manufacturing faster and easier. "I'm thrilled LANDING AI has closed a $57M Series A for our Data-centric MLOps platform for computer vision. Industrial AI needs a different recipe than Internet companies. It's time to make cutting-edge AI fast and easy for anyone to use," said Andrew Ng, Founder & CEO of Landing AI in a post.

Landing AI Inc., a startup led by artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng, has raised $57 million in funding from a group of investors that included the venture capital arms of Intel Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Lots of people will tell you they're nervous about the changes artificial intelligence will bring to the world, but Andrew Ng is confident it's all for the best. The former AI chief of Baidu and founder of Google Brain is on a mission to build what he calls an "AI-powered society" -- one where smart computers are as integral to businesses as electricity. And to bring about that future, Ng, now an adjunct professor at Stanford, will share what he knows best by teaching. Today, Ng is launching a new course on deep learning on Coursera, the online education site he co-founded. The syllabus will follow his popular machine learning course, which has attracted some 2 million enrollments since its launch in 2011.