Carnegie Mellon University
also referred to as: cmu
2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 7, 2026 by Zico Kolter · said 26 times in 12 episodes since 2013 · across every show →
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- Yann Lecun, Facebook // Artificial Intelligence // Data Driven #32 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Jesse St. Charles, Knewton // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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2013 1 mention in 1 episode
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May 7, 2026
CMU undergrad AI course has students build an LLM from scratch
“You build a LLM completely from scratch. You use PyTorch, but you build one from scratch that, you know, can be a chatbot. You train it on data. You RL it to solve math problems with tool calls. You do all of this. And this is a undergrad level course.”
May 7, 2026
Kolter tried recruiting Schulman and Karpathy to CMU before OpenAI launched
“I was trying to get both John Schulman and Andre Karpathy to apply for faculty jobs at CMU, and I was trying to understand where they were, if they were going to apply, what they're going to be like, and they said, no, I think I'm going to be doing this startu…”