Founder of DeepLearning.AI and AI Fund managing general partner
Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng is an AI researcher, educator, and entrepreneur who founded DeepLearning.AI, co-founded Coursera, and teaches at Stanford University.
About Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng is an AI researcher, educator, and entrepreneur. He founded DeepLearning.AI, serves as managing general partner at AI Fund, and is an adjunct professor at Stanford University. His current work combines AI training with building and supporting AI businesses.
He co-founded Coursera, led the founding Google Brain team, and previously served as chief scientist at Baidu and director of the Stanford AI Lab. His research and teaching cover machine learning and practical AI applications. He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- seL4 on AArch64: Proofcraft Completes the Security Proof Stack →
On August 21, 2026, Proofcraft announced the final piece of seL4's security proof stack on AArch64: confidentiality. Functional correctness and integrity were already there; now all three hold on 64-bit Arm with NCSC support. explainx.ai explains why that matters when LLMs make answers cheap but trust does not.
- Microsoft Says Coding Is "Worth It Now More Than Ever" — X Disagreed →
Microsoft Learn posted a one-line claim on August 22: coding is worth learning "now more than ever." It hit 328.7K views and a wall of replies calling out Microsoft's own AI shortcomings and an obvious conflict of interest — a company that sells coding certifications telling you to keep learning to code. explainx.ai unpacks what both sides get right, and what the honest 2026 answer actually is.
- Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map, Part 1: Building and Deploying AI Applications →
Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map named "building and deploying AI applications" as the first of four core skills — now he's fleshed it out into six concrete sub-skills. explainx.ai breaks down what each one actually requires and where to start learning it.
- Claude Academy Launch: Free Courses and the 4D AI Fluency Framework →
Anthropic opened Claude Academy on August 20, 2026 — free courses organized around real work problems, not feature tours. explainx.ai breaks down the 4D AI Fluency Framework, the learning design principles behind it, and how the Claude Academy Skill routes you to the right tutorial.
- 3 AI Skills That Matter Most in Late 2026 and 2027 →
Most "AI skills to learn" lists keep growing every quarter. Three of them actually compound into each other and cover the entire modern agent stack: Agent Skills (what an AI knows how to do), loop engineering (how long it can reliably do it), and MCP connectors (what it can reach while doing it). Master these three and the rest of the stack falls into place.