[CNMO News] In recent years, academic giants have frequently left the Internet factories.
On January 5, according to the exclusive news of Tech Planet, Wang Gang, vice president of Alibaba and head of the autonomous driving laboratory of Damo Academy, has recently left his job to start a business in the field of clean robots and has obtained financing.
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Wang Gang, a tenured professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, later joined Alibaba as a prime example of a shift from academia to an Internet company. During his time at Alibaba, Wang Gang successively served as the chief scientist of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the head of the autonomous driving laboratory of the Damo Academy, the vice president of Alibaba Group, the head of the autonomous driving laboratory of the Damo Academy, and the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Autonomous Driving.
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The reason for Wang Gang's departure is still unclear, but the general analysis believes that Internet companies overestimate the value of technology and underestimate the difficulty of technology landing, making the payment and output of technology bulls not proportional, resulting in technology bulls leaving the Internet. Wang Gang's departure may also have this reason.
Academic big guys leave the Internet, Wang Gang is not alone. In October last year, Wang Changhu, the head of Visual Technology of ByteDance, left his job, and later there was news that Wang Changhu joined Longhu Real Estate Company. In addition, ByteDance also left Li Lei, director of the artificial intelligence laboratory. Earlier, Baidu chief scientist Wu Enda left his job, chose to go it alone, and successively established three artificial intelligence-related companies and foundations.