是AI大神也是創業狂人！繼收穫首個IPO後，吳恩達旗下公司融資5700萬美元

{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"blockquote","content":[{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"雖然當前市場上充斥着大量人工智能帶來變革的言論，但吳恩達坦言，他在工廠看到的情況是，人工智能並沒有得到廣泛應用。"}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"align":null,"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Landing.ai 斬獲 5700 萬美元融資"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"據 "},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/08\/google-brain-founder-andrew-ng-raises-57-million-for-landing-ai.html","title":"xxx","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"CNBC 11 月 8 日報道"}]},{"type":"text","text":"，谷歌大腦項目創始人、人工智能先驅吳恩達的初創公司 Landing.ai 獲得5700萬美元的投資（約合 3.6 億元人民幣），不過公司估值尚不祥。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"據瞭解，"},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/landing.ai\/","title":"xxx","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Landing.ai "}]},{"type":"text","text":"是吳恩達於 2017 年創立的人工智能公司，公司主要對外提供 AI 解決方案，希望利用 AI 技術助力企業轉型。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Landing.ai 推出的第一款解決方案是 Landing Lens，這是一種自動化的視覺檢測工具，利用 AI 技術可以比人工檢查員和自動光學檢測（AOI）機器更準確地發現問題，Light 還生成可視化和分析，以優化製造流程和產品質量。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"疫情期間，Landing.ai 還在其官方博客平臺上發佈了一款社交距離監控工具，其中包含一個演示視頻，基於公開街景數據集 The Oxford Town Centre 展示了新的社交距離探測器，旨在讓行人彼此之間保持至少兩米的距離，儘可能減少新冠病毒的傳播。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"image","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/static001.geekbang.org\/resource\/image\/ce\/10\/cea5d51e2699b85064dc4323d1900110.jpg","alt":null,"title":null,"style":[{"key":"width","value":"75%"},{"key":"bordertype","value":"none"}],"href":null,"fromPaste":true,"pastePass":true}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"據悉，Landing.ai 的客戶包括了美國工具製造商“史丹利百德”，以及中國電子代工巨頭富士康。在該公司官網的一個客戶證明視頻中，富士康執行副總裁劉穎昕介紹說，Landing.ai 縮短了富士康開發人工智能系統的時間，增加了識別系統的精準度。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"融資方面，Landing.ai 曾於 2019 年獲得來自英特爾投資 Intel Capital 的天使輪融資。Landing.ai 的A輪融資由工業物聯網風投基金 McRock Capital 領投，參投方包括英特爾投資、三星催化劑基金（Samsung Catalyst Fund）、洞見創投（Insight Partners）和加拿大年金計劃投資委員會。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"吳恩達在接受 CNBC 採訪時說道：“我們研發的工具能幫助製造商快速和容易地建立人工智能系統並實現有效部署。”他補充說，希望將人工智能帶到其他行業，並超越谷歌和百度等互聯網消費平臺。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"吳恩達表示：“我們在新聞中已經接觸到大量有關人工智能將給很多行業帶來變革的公關宣傳話語”，“對我來說，我還沒發現很多宣傳的東西已經變爲了現實。雖然有大量的概念性驗證、大量的宣傳，但坦率地說，我在工廠看到的情況是，人工智能並沒有得到廣泛應用。”"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"對於融資後的下一步計劃，吳恩達表示，他計劃利用這筆資金進行嘗試“讓一切變得更快”。他對此解釋道，團隊規模將從75人翻倍到150人左右，同時也將引入新的客戶。"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"align":null,"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"“創業狂人”吳恩達"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"“AI 大神”吳恩達在人工智能領域可以說是聲名遠揚，不過，用“創業狂人”四個字來形容他也不爲過。2017 年 3 月，吳恩達離開百度後宣佈正式走上"},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.infoq.cn\/article\/D8SIChJYRNctZFWUVfH5","title":"xxx","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"創業之路"}]},{"type":"text","text":"，並陸續創立了多家公司，其中包括三家人工智能相關的公司、基金會：deeplearning.ai、Landing.ai、AI Fund。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"除去剛宣佈獲得 5700 萬美元的 Landing.ai，其餘兩家公司基本情況如下："}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"deeplearning.ai 與其說是一家創業公司，倒不如說是吳恩達在線 AI 教育平臺 Coursera 的一個分支，吳恩達之前推出的“AI for everyone”課程就發佈在這個網站。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"image","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/static001.geekbang.org\/resource\/image\/ff\/1d\/ffb5cc8af341808c23c20737fda65d1d.jpg","alt":null,"title":null,"style":[{"key":"width","value":"75%"},{"key":"bordertype","value":"none"}],"href":null,"fromPaste":true,"pastePass":true}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"2018 年初成立的 AI Fund 是一家風險投資公司，致力於通過加速採用 AI 來推動人類向前發展。據其官網介紹，AI Fund 得到了世界上一些領先的風險投資公司和投資者的 1.76 億美元資金支持。這些有限合夥人包括很多頂級硅谷投資者，如 Greylock Partners、紅杉資本、New Enterprise Associates (NEA) 和軟銀集團。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"值得一提的是，在今年 3 月 31 日，吳恩達早期參與創辦的教育科技公司 Coursera正式在紐交所上市，股票代碼：COUR。這也是吳恩達收穫的首個IPO。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"雖未全職參與該公司運營，但吳恩達的課程一直是 Coursera 上最受歡迎的課程，沒有之一。上市當日，Coursera 兩位創始人吳恩達、Daphne Koller，以及首席執行官 Jeff Maggioncalda 共同敲鐘。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"信息顯示，Coursera 11月 8 日的收盤價爲 33.67 美元 \/ 股，總市值達 46.38 億美元（約合 296.4 億元人民幣）。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"除了上述幾家公司，吳恩達還曾與妻子開了“夫妻店”Drive.ai，該公司於 2019 年被蘋果公司收購。這次收購在一些業內人士看來，更像是蘋果的一次“自救”行動，畢竟蘋果自動駕駛一直被寄予厚望，但又表現不佳，如果再不採取一些措施，蘋果可能就真的趕不上自動駕駛這趟車了。而對於吳恩達來說，Drive.ai 只是其職業生涯裏的一段小插曲。"}]}]}