Stanford University

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 1, 2025 by Karina Nguyen · said 118 times in 54 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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2026 32 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
2025 59 mentions in 21 episodes 3 per episode
2024 20 mentions in 17 episodes 1 per episode
2023 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode

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Feb 1, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nguyen: Stanford HELM benchmark under-reported Claude performance due to improper prompting
“This has happened with, like, Stanford, I remember, like, when Stanford had lists also, like, they were, like, running benchmarks. Yeah, Helm. And somehow, like, Claude was, like, always, like, not performing well, and that's because, like, the way they prompt…”
Karina Nguyen Feb 1, 2025 ▶ 16:39 The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
Jul 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Marimo Surpasses 300K Monthly PyPI Downloads and Jupyter's GitHub Stars
“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.”
Akshay Agrawal Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 2:07 ⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
Oct 20, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bakouch: Novel optimizer speedups are exaggerated due to undertuned AdamW baselines
“And what they find is that the speed up is greatly, greatly exaggerated. And mostly because often people like undertone the Adam W baseline.”
Elie Bakouch Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 16:06 ⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
Dec 31, 2025 positive
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Jeff Dean and Databricks founders invested in Konwinski's venture fund
“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.”
Andy Konwinski Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 2:43 [State of Research Funding] Beyond NSF, Slingshots, Open Frontiers — Andy Konwinski, Laude Institute
Aug 21, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Park: Simile AI has ~60 employees, 15-20% from Stanford lab
“We are right now about 60 or so people. 15%, almost 20% of the company population actually are just my lab mates.”
Joon Sung Park Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 1:08:46 Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
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