AI researcher Ng launches $175 million investment fund
Source: Eric Risberg

In this Friday, July 14, 2017, file photo, computer scientist Andrew Ng works at his office in Palo Alto, Calif. Ng, the cofounder of online education platform Coursera who’s led AI teams at Google and Baidu, says he’s launching a $175 million fund to invest in AI startups, backed by private equity firms NEA, Sequoia, Greylock Partners and Softbank.