The man who coined ‘agentic AI’ is betting it won’t take your job
Andrew Ng helped give the AI industry its vocabulary, from “AI is the new electricity” to “agentic AI.” His new company bets against the phrase everyone else is using: that AI will take your job. Ng has founded LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup, and Coursera is backing it with $100m, first reported by Axios. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Published: 28 July 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Jobs & economy · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 29 July 2026
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