https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/udacity-and-baidu-offer-free-intro-course-for-apollo-self-driving-platform/

Onstage at Baidu’s CES 2018 press conference today, Baidu COO Qi Liu was joined by Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun to announce a new collaboration between the two companies. Thrun revealed that Baidu and Udacity will collaborate in a number of areas, including, “for the first time, building courses together with both a Chinese and an American company” for the online education platform.

Thrun noted that the number of people with the requisite AI expertise to build self-driving cars is still “vanishingly small,” with as few as 10,000 people the whole world over qualified to do this kind of engineering work. He also pointed out that of Udacity’s 9 million total enrollments across its programs thus far, one-fifth of those are coming from China already, and many of the graduates of its self-driving car programs are ending up with jobs at Udacity, too.