BloombergThe market for Silicon Valley engineers with expertise in artificial intelligence and automated driving tech keeps getting tighter. Mountain View, California-based Didi Labs will focus on "AI-based security and intelligent driving technologies," the company said on March 8. It will be led by computer scientist Fengmin Gong, vice president of the Didi Research Institute and a co-founder of Palo Alto Networks. Didi is also partnering with online education service Udacity, founded by former Google Self-Driving Car chief Sebastian Thrun, in a programming competition to find potential star AI developers. "There is some very good talent out there but right now it's more of a talent grab at companies."

Source: Forbes March 09, 2017 01:45 UTC