The world’s most popular Chinese-language search engine, Baidu, has announced it will open a new artificial intelligence centre – in the heart of Silicon Valley in California. The new centre will be run by Andrew Ng, “Google Brain” founder and Director of Standford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Ng helped Google set up its program to replicate the human brain using computer hardware and software, and at Baidu will oversee 200 employees working at a $300mn facility in Sunnyvale, CA. Taiwanese media also reports Ng will head the entire Baidu Research Institute, consisting of three laboratories: an artificial intelligence lab in Silicon Valley, a deep learning laboratory in Beijing, and a big-data laboratory, also in Beijing.