Andrew Ng, the founder of the Google Brain research lab and former chief scientist of Baidu, has raised $57 million for his start-up, Landing AI.
Founded in Palo Alto in 2017, Landing AI has developed a computer vision tool that manufacturers can use to create their own visual inspection software.
Intel Capital and Samsung Catalyst Fund both participated in Landing AI's series A funding round, as did Insight Partners and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. The investment was led by McRock Capital.Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng, the founder of the Google Brain research lab and the former chief scientist of Baidu, has raised $57 million from investors for his start-up, Landing AI, at an undisclosed valuation.
Computer vision software enables computers to derive meaningful information from digital images and videos. While it can be used, for exampleto help autonomous cars make sense of their surroundings, it can also be used to identify a defect on a semiconductor wafer, a scratch on a smartphone screen or a dent in an auto component.
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