{"id":34652,"date":"2017-02-17T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/ford-just-invested-1-billion-in-a-secretive-ai-startup-founded"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:48","slug":"ford-just-invested-1-billion-in-a-secretive-ai-startup-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/ford-just-invested-1-billion-in-a-secretive-ai-startup-founded","title":{"rendered":"Ford just invested $1 billion in a secretive AI startup founded by former Google and Uber execs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ford-just-invested-1-billion-in-a-secretive-ai-startup-founded.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford is investing $1 billion in a secretive artificial intelligence startup headed by former Google and Uber execs to advance its self-driving car efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The startup, Argo AI, was founded by Bryan Salesky, the former director of hardware for Google\u2019s self-driving-car efforts, and Peter Rander, Uber\u2019s engineering lead at its autonomous cars center.<\/p>\n<p>The $1 billion investment will be spread out over five years as Ford looks to commercialize its self-driving technology by 2021.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/ford-invests-1-billion-argo-ai-for-self-driving-cars-2017-2?r=UK&amp;IR=T\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/ford-invests-1-billion-arg...K&amp;IR=T<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is investing $1 billion in a secretive artificial intelligence startup headed by former Google and Uber execs to advance its self-driving car efforts. The startup, Argo AI, was founded by Bryan Salesky, the former director of hardware for Google\u2019s self-driving-car efforts, and Peter Rander, Uber\u2019s engineering lead at its autonomous cars center. The $1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48825,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions\/48825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}