The billionaire has quietly founded a startup that aims to “bring people closer, simplify communication, and enhance engagement” through artificial intelligence.

Sebastian Thrun is a scientist, educator, inventor, and entrepreneur. Sebastian is the CEO of Kitty Hawk, whose vision is to free people from traffic. He is also the founder, chairman, and ...

But for many employees, this one stung the most. In April 2022, its CEO, Sebastian Thrun, gathered staffers to announce that the company was officially shutting down its most promising project to ...

If you’ve ever wanted your own self-driving car, this is your chance. [Sebastian Thrun], co-lecturer (along with the great [Peter Norvig]) of the Stanford AI class is opening up a new class ...

WSJ's Joanna Stern "bumps into" Sebastian Thrun, the CEO and co-founder of flying-car company Kitty Hawk. The two discuss Thrun’s ambitions to take flying cars mainstream in the next decade and ...

They're all passion projects for Silicon Valley tech superstar Sebastian Thrun. The former Google executive and expert in AI and robotics is quietly ramping up a stealth startup revolving around ...

Why the American Ingenuity Award winner believes higher education should be a basic human right Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards 2019: Lil Nas X (03:04) Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards ...

Sebastian Thrun has been at the forefront of disruption, taking on big ideas as head of Google X, founding online learning platform Udacity and now Kitty Hawk, which uses electric power and AI to ...