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2026-08-12 17:51 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

Hinton, Li, and Ng Debate Open Weights and Concentration of AI Power at Ai4

At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng each argued against letting a handful of labs gatekeep AI, while disagreeing on how open model weights should be. Hinton distinguished open-s...

[AI Governance] [Andrew Ng] [Fei-Fei Li] [open-weight models] [Geoffrey Hinton]

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2026-05-20 19:47 [Commercial Release] [SRC↗]

IrisGo Develops Proactive AI Desktop Agent with Andrew Ng Backing

IrisGo, backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund with $2.8 million in seed funding, is developing a desktop AI companion that learns user workflows and automates them proactively. The system, founded by former Apple Siri engineer J...

[AI Agents] [Workflow Automation] [Andrew Ng] [on-device AI] [proactive systems]

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2025-02-07 20:24 [Policy and Regulation] [SRC↗]

AI Pioneer Andrew Ng Endorses Google's Reversal on AI Weapons Pledge

AI researcher and Google Brain founder Andrew Ng expressed support for Google's decision to drop its 7-year pledge not to build AI systems for weapons. Ng criticized the original Project Maven protests, arguing that Amer...

[Google] [Military AI] [Andrew Ng] [Project Maven] [AI Weapons]

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