Founders & executives
Kai Yu
Founded Baidu's deep learning lab, then Horizon Robotics.
b. 1976🇨🇳China余凯Founder & CEO, Horizon Robotics
Started Baidu IDL — China's first corporate deep-learning lab — and recruited Andrew Ng into it, before leaving to build edge AI silicon at Horizon.
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Baidu IDLHorizon Journey chips
3 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 2015–now11 yrsHorizon RoboticsFounder & CEO
- 2012–20153 yrsBaiduFounder, Institute of Deep Learning
- 2007–20125 yrsNEC Labs AmericaDepartment Head
0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first
No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.
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