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Amazon adds AI expert Andrew Ng, Google Brain founder and Baidu alumnus, to its board

  • Ng, founder and managing director at the AI Fund, will replace Judy McGrath, former MTV CEO, on the Amazon board
  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says generative AI may be the largest technological transformation since cloud computing or even the internet

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Andrew Ng, leading AI expert who worked at Baidu, has been appointed to Amazon’s board of directors. Photo: AP Photo
Amazon.com is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng to its board of directors, a move that comes amid intense AI competition among start-ups and big technology companies.

The Seattle company said Thursday that Ng, a managing director at the Palo Alto, California-based AI Fund, will replace a seat vacated by Judy McGrath, a former CEO of MTV who told Amazon she will not run for re-election.

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