Enterprise automation company Landing.ai has hired Amazon director of artificial intelligence and computer vision Gopi Prashanth to act as its new VP of engineering. Prashanth led a team that created the AI system behind Amazon Go, and previously worked as a development manager at Microsoft.
Prashanth is one of the biggest hires yet for Landing.ai, a company founded in December 2017 by Google Brain cofounder and former Baidu AI chief scientist Andrew Ng.