{"id":9216,"date":"2017-09-13T13:54:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/the-director-of-baidus-silicon-valley-ai-lab-has-departed.html"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:54:04","slug":"the-director-of-baidus-silicon-valley-ai-lab-has-departed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/the-director-of-baidus-silicon-valley-ai-lab-has-departed.html","title":{"rendered":"The director of Baidu\u2019s Silicon Valley AI Lab has departed"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Adam Coates, director of Baidu\u2019s Silicon Valley AI Lab<\/a>, has left the company.\u00a0A source confirmed the exit and Coates has updated his LinkedIn reflecting the change. Coates joined the Chinese search giant back in May of 2014 to lead a California-based team of 50 machine learning developers.<\/p>\n

Baidu has built up an established proficiency in natural language processing. While at Baidu, Coates publicly evangelized Baidu\u2019s machine learning efforts and worked directly on applying deep learning to core NLP problems like text to speech and speech recognition.<\/p>\n

A Stanford educated PhD in computer science<\/a>, Coates is well known for his work on very large neural networks and efforts to optimize distributed GPU clusters. While at Stanford, Coates was Andrew Ng\u2019s doctoral student<\/a>.\u00a0Previously, Ng served as Baidu\u2019s chief scientist, but he left the company back in March.<\/a><\/p>\n

Since departing, Ng has been investing time and resources into a troika of businesses. Thus far he has announced a new deep learning course<\/a>. We also reported on a new AI fund<\/a> filed with the SEC in Ng\u2019s name last month.<\/p>\n

Ng\u2019s departure was widely reported given his high profile role within the company. Baidu has been investing heavily into its Sunnyvale office as a pipeline for acquiring top U.S. machine learning talent. In an interview with Wired last month<\/a>,\u00a0Qi Lu, Baidu\u2019s chief operating officer explicitly noted that while China\u2019s AI talent pool is growing rapidly, the U.S. is still the global leader.<\/p>\n

Baidu declined to comment when asked about the departure.<\/p>\n

We have also reached out to\u00a0Coates. We will update this post if we hear information on who will be taking the reigns at Baidu\u2019s Silicon Valley AI Lab or what\u00a0Coates\u2019 plans are for the future.<\/p>\n

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