UC Berkeley

“When Elizabeth Warren first proposed the wealth tax, so I found, and she said, well, we have these models and everything. So I found the economist at UC Berkeley, And I said, would you share your model with me or at least tell me about it? He goes, I'm like, w…”

“One of the other exciting things we did is, is open sourcing a training stack for continual learning. And so this is in conjunction with Sky RL Berkeley's Sky RL lab in any scale as well.”

“When I started working in robotics about a decade ago, I worked with a robot called a PR-II, which I believe had a cost of about 400,000 dollars. When I started my lab at UC Berkeley, I used a robot that was in the ballpark of 30,000 dollars. Now, each arm on …”

“That fund is the Berkeley Skydeck Fund, which invests in our accelerator companies, and here's what we did that has really turned Skydeck into an extraordinary program, and one that, that other universities are asking about, and that is the fund, which is a pr…”

“When I joined, Skydeck was open to students or faculty or alums of Berkeley, UCSF, The Lawrence Berkeley Lab, it was fairly limited, and over time we expanded it to now the accelerator is open to anybody. You can be a graduate of anything.”

“So we have about 900 people Mostly Berkeley alums, but not all who have signed an agreement to be advisors for our startups pro bono, no charge. We don't pay them and they don't charge the startups anything when the startups are in the program.”

“That's something actually Berkeley changed some time ago. Specifically, if you're a faculty and you're doing entrepreneurship, thumbs up, right, for your 10, tenure evaluation.”

“It said about 74 or 75% of the enterprises that they had spoken to their biggest problem was reliability, and that's also why they weren't comfortable deploying products to their end users and building customer-facing products”

“So the venture funding, there's 50 professors and PhDs, the top names like Jeff Dean and the top faculty at Berkeley and Stanford and my co-founders of Databricks and Perplexity who've invested in the fund.”

“So lots of studies on this, but the one I like the best is from UC Berkeley that found that gestures actually precede speech in the brain. What does that mean? Your hands help your brain form the thoughts.”

“So the very first biohub, what we did, there were two kind of interesting things. One was, it was this collaboration between UCSF, Stanford, and Berkeley. And there are all these really smart people at all these different places who previously, I guess in theo…”

“Berkeley undergraduates produce more funded new businesses than the undergraduates at any other universities.”

“We lift more people further up the economic ladder than any other university in the country.”

“A third of our students are already transfer students from junior, from community colleges,”

“I think last I checked, over 300,000 monthly downloads on PyPy. More GitHub stars than Jupyter Notebook for whatever that's worth. And we're used at companies like OpenAI, Hugging Face, Cloudflare, BlackRock, universities like Stanford and Berkeley.”

“The fact that we come from Berkeley and from a university really speaks to our scientific approach in neutrality. I think if it came from an industrial lab, people would always have questions about, oh, well, these people are they also training a model and wha…”

“I started working more seriously in robotics more than 10 years ago at this point at the start of my PhD at Berkeley, and we were working on neural network control Trying to train neural networks that map from image pixels to directly actually to motor torques…”

“Basically we found that you could add up to four times the amount of transmission capacity that you could in a constrained transmission environment like the one we're in right now by using advanced conductors. So by 2035.”

“How something behaves is far more important than what it's called. And so when you build an asset allocation, you describe the behaviors that you expect out of that asset, and you build a portfolio, you diversify a portfolio of different behaviors rather than …”

“About a third of our capital across different and different parts of the portfolio went to firms that would really reasonably be considered emerging.”

“Berkeley, right now, and UCLA, and about 20 other schools. If you want to apply to be a chemistry professor, The first thing that you do is you have to fill out a diversity statement, and it's called, that sounds nice, a diversity statement, but it's actually,…”

“The classes are huge. 800 people in a class. And then I get to graduate school, and in graduate school, there's like eight people in a class. So this is upside down. I needed it when I was a freshman. I don't need it now that I'm a graduate student. I know wha…”

“There's a course now offered at UC Berkeley called Adulting. I'm not kidding. It's like how to do, how to take care of your laundry, you know, how to balance your checkbook”

“We are actually one of the first colleges to be created under new accreditation rules. So we were accredited this past fall. We offer a real accredited bachelor's degree accredited by the same accreditor that accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley and so on and so…”

“Academia, it's allowing you to do more experimentation. It's set for that. And at Berkeley, we are in a privileged position. Of course, being close to the Silicon Valley, we have a lot of feedback. From the industry. So we are very anchored in what are the rea…”

“So the labs are like one rule is around five years.”

“The other thing about what AMLAB and all these labs have done is that they take a very strong stand about being open source and we generate no patents.”

“When you look at the PhD students who applied to Berkeley, PhD applicants. It turns out that well over 60% are applying for AI.”

“If you look at 40 years of research by Charlene Nemeth at Berkeley, she shows that devil's advocates rarely work.”

“I was a PhD student at UC Berkeley, and we actually started working with Hadoop users back in 2007. And I did, for example, an internship at Facebook when Facebook was only about 300 people and they were just starting to set up Hadoop.”

“When I was 19, I ended up buying this Porsche and dropping out of UC Berkeley and moving to LA, and my brother did the same thing, and when I was 21, I ended up buying this Ferrari, my brother and I bought this million-dollar house, and later the business had …”

“There is a related project that, ah, Berkeley is called, ah, succinct, ah, which actually go even more than, you know, beyond that. It's, ah it's a project that allows you to, you know, provide allow you to have, you know, query processing on the compressed da…”