Venture capital firm Radical Ventures has brought on AI expert and luminary Fei-Fei Li as a partner.
Li, a Stanford University professor and co-director of its
Human-Centered AI Institute, is known as the creator of the ImageNet
project, a database of images that's been used to train computer vision
algorithms.
- According to Axios, Li will
still teach at Stanford while juggling her new role at Toronto-based
Radical Ventures, a VC fund that backs AI startups.
- Li told Axios, "Nobody lives in a vacuum — AI doesn't live in a vacuum. It's impacting people and jobs."
- Her new role comes shortly after Radical Ventures launched a new $550M fund to support AI startups in the early stages.
- Li is a leading investor in that fund, along with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's family office and deep learning pioneer and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton.
- Radical's current portfolio includes the AI startups Cohere, Reka, and AI-powered search engine You.com.
