Letters from Andrew Ng

Personal messages to the AI community

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Meta Moves to Buy Agent Tech: Meta strikes a deal to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based agentic AI startup with Chinese origins

A high-profile acquisition could enable Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to offer built-in agents that do users’ bidding.
Juan M. Lavista Ferres is pictured holding a laptop while students watch a video about AI on a screen, linking education and technology.
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Education That Works With — Not Against — AI by Juan M. Lavista Ferres: Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, on assignments that properly test students’ abilities

A little more than three years ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and education changed forever. For students, the ability to generate fluent, credible text on demand in seconds is an incredible new tool.
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Big AI Lures Talent With Huge Pay: Meta’s hiring spree raised compensation for top AI engineers and executives

Leading AI companies fought a ferocious war for talent, luring top talent from competitors with levels of compensation more commonly associated with pro sports.
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How to Gain New Skills and Sharpen Old Ones: Give yourself a gift this holiday season by taking courses, building projects, and (maybe) reading papers.

Another year of rapid AI advances has created more opportunities than ever for anyone — including those just entering the field — to build software.
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Don't Believe The Hype!: AGI is not just around the corner. People who enter AI today have huge opportunities to contribute to the field.

I recently received an email titled “An 18-year-old’s dilemma: Too late to contribute to AI?” Its author, who gave me permission to share this, is preparing for college.
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OpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partners

OpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.
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Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro

With exclusive courses, tools, and community, DeepLearning.AI Pro is a universal passport to learn every AI skill that matters.
Flowchart of Text-to-LoRA model processes task embeddings into LoRA adapters, showing weights and losses.
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LoRA Adapters On Tap: Text-to-LoRA generates task-specific LoRA adapters directly from natural language descriptions

The approach known as LoRA streamlines fine-tuning by training a small adapter that modifies a pretrained model’s weights at inference. Researchers built a model that generates such adapters directly.
Comparison table highlighting Claude Sonnet 4.5's top scores in coding and reasoning benchmarks, featuring improved capabilities.
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Claude Levels Up: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the Claude Agent SDK, and overhauls Claude Code for developers

Anthropic updated its mid-size Claude Sonnet model, making it the first member of the Claude family to reach version 4.5. It also enhanced the Claude Code agentic coding tool with long-desired features.
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Generating Music, Paying Musicians: Sweden’s STIM built an ecosystem for training AI models on copyrighted music and compensating original artists

A Swedish organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and record companies has formed a technology-legal-business ecosystem designed to allow AI developers to use music legally while compensating publishers of recordings and compositions.
Chart details ChatGPT conversations. Writing (28.1%), info-seeking (21.3%), and guidance (28.3%) lead.
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What ChatGPT Users Want: ChatGPT users now more likely to be young, female, and seeking info, study shows

What do ChatGPT’s 700 million weekly active users do with it? OpenAI teamed up with a Harvard economist to find out.
Comic showing tech interviews: 2022 asks “Can you code FizzBuzz?” vs 2025 asks “Can you build an e-commerce platform?”
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AI Skills Are Redefining What Makes a Great Developer: The job market for software developers requires knowing how to use AI

There is significant unmet demand for developers who understand AI.
Bar charts comparing AI and human interviewers show higher rates for AI across job offers, job starts, and one-month retention.
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Chatbot Interviewers Fill More Jobs: Study shows AI agent interviewers improve hiring, retention in customer service jobs

Large language models may have advantages over human recruiters when conducting job interviews, a study shows.
Meta’s AI hiring surge visualized by a tall stack of gold coins, symbolizing record-breaking compensation offers.
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Meta Lures Talent With Sky-High Pay: Meta’s hiring spree pushes up salaries for AI engineers higher across the industry

Publicly reported compensation for AI talent has skyrocketed in the wake of Meta’s recent hiring spree.
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LLM Support for Tutors: GPT-4 boosts remote tutors’ performance in real time, study finds

Students benefit from tutoring, but training tutors is expensive. A study shows that large language models can boost tutors’ effectiveness in real time.
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