23 Facts About Anthony Levandowski

In 2009, Anthony Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, now known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016.

At the 2019 AV Summit hosted by The Information, Anthony Levandowski remarked that a fundamental breakthrough in artificial intelligence is needed to move autonomous vehicle technology forward.

In 2019, Anthony Levandowski was indicted on 33 federal charges of alleged theft of self-driving car trade secrets.

In September, 2021 Anthony Levandowski rejoined the Pronto leadership team full time as CEO; subsequently announcing the company's new offroad autonomous division.

In 1998, Anthony Levandowski entered the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.

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In 2003, Anthony Levandowski launched Construction Control Systems with Randy Miller to build WorkTop, a portable blueprint reader and updater for construction sites.

In 2007, Anthony Levandowski donated the Ghost Rider to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, where it now resides.

In 2006, Anthony Levandowski began working with Sebastian Thrun, whom he had met at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, on VueTool.

Anthony Levandowski approached Google and 510 Systems with the venture, but they both turned him down for liability reasons.

Anthony Levandowski's Robots was acquired by Google in 2011 alongside his company 510 Systems for an estimated $20 million.

In 2011, Anthony Levandowski lobbied Nevada to allow the testing of autonomous vehicles.

Anthony Levandowski continued to work as a technical lead on Google's self-driving car project alongside Chris Urmson, Dmitri Dolgov, and Mike Montemerlo until January 2016, when he left to launch Otto.

In 2018, Anthony Levandowski launched Pronto AI to produce a camera-based, self-driving highway-only retrofit system for semi-trucks.

In February 2022, Anthony Levandowski launched Pollen Mobile, an open-source wireless network.

The panel found that Anthony Levandowski owed Google $179 million—$120 million accounted for the salary he received while at the company, and the remainder for interest and legal fees accrued.

However, in April 2018, days before the final arbitration hearing that resulted in Anthony Levandowski owing Google $179 million, Uber informed him it would be seeking reimbursement for his defense costs, arguing he had breached their agreement by refusing to testify.

In March 2017, United States District Judge William Alsup referred the civil case to federal prosecutors, citing the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 after Anthony Levandowski exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

In May 2017, Judge Alsup ordered Anthony Levandowski to refrain from working on Lidar at Uber and required Uber to disclose its discussions on the technology.

Anthony Levandowski was later fired by Uber for failing to cooperate in an internal investigation.

In months before he left Google, the charges alleged Anthony Levandowski downloaded thousands of files from Waymo's predecessor, Project Chauffeur.

The data allegedly included "critical engineering information about the hardware used on Project Chauffeur self-driving vehicles, " and that Anthony Levandowski transferred files onto his laptop before leaving the company.

Anthony Levandowski admitted to accessing the document about one month after leaving Google in February 2016.

Anthony Levandowski was portrayed by Jeremy Howard in episodes 5 and 6.