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The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
- ▶ 11:29 Matt Turck I'd love to spend a few minutes on your entrepreneurial story, uh, leading to the creation of the company, which I believe was Stanford to MIT to Meraki, uh, Meraki.
OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti
- ▶ 0:43 Matt Turck He was a professor at Stanford, a multi-time founder, and most recently the CTO at Intel.
- ▶ 26:00 Matt Turck And, uh, your background, the default of this, uh, so you're both a, uh, professor at Stanford and an entrepreneur or a founder, or mostly an academic, like, just walk us through your journey. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real
- ▶ 0:54 Matt Turck Before OpenAI, Yann was at Stanford, where he co-authored Stanford Alpaca,
- ▶ 14:06 Yann Dubois I had, uh, I did more academic type of work in different countries and I ended up at Stanford, did my PhD there.
OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code
- ▶ 30:01 Zico Kolter Then I went to grad school at, at Stanford, and, and worked with, uh, with Andrew Ng there, and, uh, basically.
AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina Hong
- ▶ 31:32 Matt Turck Then you topped all of, all of this with a joint PhD in math and JD in law at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
- ▶ 0:12 Matt Turck In this episode, I'm thrilled to sit down once again with George Sivulka, a Stanford prodigy who walked away from a fully funded PhD when the launch of GPT-III convinced him that the real action was outside the lab.
- ▶ 4:43 Matt Turck Could you rewind back to the initial sort of light bulb moment when I guess you were a student at Stanford, if I remember correctly, how did that all come about?
Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
- ▶ 39:21 Sridhar Ramaswamy Mehran Sahami, who did, uh, machine learning at Google and now works for Stanford, also came from the Epiphany mafia.
Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
- ▶ 0:31 Matt Turck He then became head of research at Hugging Face before starting Contextual AI in 2023, while also teaching as an adjunct professor at Stanford University.
What You MUST Know About AI Engineering | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”
- ▶ 0:08 Matt Turck Now, Chip is a well-known writer and computer scientist who has taught AI at Stanford, worked as an AI engineer at places like Nvidia, Netflix, and Snorkel, and has become a bit of a superstar in the AI community through our influential…
Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
- ▶ 1:07 Matt Turck Now, in addition to being a great AI founder, Sharon has done a lot of teaching both at Stanford and on Coursera, where she teaches very popular generative AI courses.
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- ▶ 39:15 Aaron Katz So I applied to Stanford and Harvard and MIT where I got waitlisted and I didn't get in.
AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
- ▶ 35:06 Morgan McGuire And so with, uh, ControlNet, and this, this is, um, in collaboration with Stanford University, um, Professor, uh, Manish Agrawala and his students who work with us, um,
How Nomic AI Is Driving The Open Source Revolution
- ▶ 32:59 Zach Nussbaum Um, and then recently Hazy Research, uh, from Stanford released a long context, uh, benchmark called LOCO.
Custom LLMs at Scale: Lamini CEO Sharon Zhou’s Playbook for Enterprise AI
- ▶ 1:05 Sharon Zhou I mean, you know, actually most recently I was computer science faculty at Stanford, uh, leading a research group in generative AI, generative models. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:49 Sharon Zhou Um, and maybe just to give an anecdote, uh, during my PhD at Stanford, um, when I was working on various different AI models, um, I worked on a AI pathology project where we had to detect basically a bacteria that indicated stomach cancer. 2 times in the scene
Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search
- ▶ 2:18 Aravind Srinivas I believe maybe it's around competitive with Stanford now. 3 times in the scene
Moonhub’s Nancy Xu Unveils the AI Recruiter That’s Beating LinkedIn
- ▶ 1:41 Nancy Xu And, you know, my personal story prior to MoonHub, I was over at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Matt Turck So ideally, uh, I may not have gotten to Stanford or whichever, which other, um, whichever other top school, but maybe you'll find that I've contributed a lot to open source on GitHub, and therefore you'll service me.
- ▶ 25:26 Nancy Xu You know, and some of them are, uh, you know, some of them are people that I knew from Stanford, uh, when I was there for other, either undergrad or PhD or MBA, and some of them I knew from before.
Secure, Private, Powerful: Dust’s Vision for Enterprise AI Agents | Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 1:34 Stanislas Polu We both went to Stanford. 4 times in the scene
Guardrails AI: The Playbook for Safer, Hallucination-Free LLMs — Shreya Rajpal Explains
- ▶ 34:43 Shreya Rajpal Um, you know, this, um, recent, like, uh, blog and writing from, you know, the Hazy Research Lab at Stanford, which I also recommend, you know, people check out, which is LLMs and Generative AI really helps solve, like, um, the first mile…
- ▶ 44:40 Shreya Rajpal So his work, his team, for example, does a,
Beyond ChatGPT: Ori Goshen’s Playbook for Building Neuro-Symbolic LLMs
- ▶ 7:20 Ori Goshen Um, and, um, I kind of randomly, uh, it's an interesting story by itself, but I met, uh, Yoav, who's, uh, my partner and, um, and Yoav, his background, he was a professor at Stanford for almost, uh, 30 years.
Hippocratic AI’s Munjal Shah: Building the First Safety-First LLM for Healthcare
- ▶ 43:35 Munjal Shah I think we have, like, 11 people from Stanford, and we have, like, four people from Berkeley, and we have five people from IIT, and we have, um, you know, just, just a host of very, very talented folks, but, um, that's what it looks like,…
Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
- ▶ 1:23 Richard Socher Yeah, um, so I started MetaMind after my PhD, and I actually thought I was gonna become a full-time professor, and accepted a faculty job, and, uh, then thought, okay, I'll do, you know, this company for a year, maybe I'll teach a little… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:03 Richard Socher Um, they took my class, uh, back in the day remotely, uh, so they weren't official students at Stanford, but took the class remotely, had a study group, uh, for the first ever neural net for NLP class, and they were just so smart, had some…
- ▶ 34:49 Richard Socher You know, my, my, uh, Stanford lectures from like many years ago and people learning NLP were, um, you know, online already back then.
Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
- ▶ 36:43 Lukas Biewald Stanford classes for free.
Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
- ▶ 4:11 Victor Riparbelli And one of them was a guy called Matthijs Niesner, who was a professor at Stainford at the time. 2 times in the scene
AI and the Future of Knowledge Work with Hebbia’s CEO George Sivulka
- ▶ 1:30 George Sivulka And, uh, what they did was they threw me in a class, which is pretty famous at Stanford, called Math 51, where there's, you know, hundreds, many hundreds of students. 3 times in the scene
Entering the Data-Centric Era of Foundation Models with Alex Ratner, Co-Founder & CEO of Snorkel AI
- ▶ 0:39 Alex Ratner So I'll talk a little bit about what we, you know, the bigger picture, and I'll speak with both my snorkel hat, and I'm also on faculty University of Washington, and then my co-founders over at Stanford, where we started the project.
- ▶ 1:29 Alex Ratner My co-founder Chris Ray, who's a professor at Stanford, helped co-found the Center for Research on Foundation Models. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:28 Alex Ratner We had an open source research project back in the Stanford days that kind of was a demo project for this.
The Composable CDP & The CX Hub | ActionIQ Founder & CEO, Tasso Argyros
- ▶ 0:29 Tasso Argyros So, um, my background, I, I started a database company out of Stanford too long ago, ah, and then I started Action IQ after I did that.
Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 6:58 Victor Riparbelli Uh, I had also spent some time at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Ali Ghodsi (Founder & CEO, Databricks) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:22 Matt Turck And by the way, the MPLAB has created some amazing, um, things and, you know, Berkeley in general and Sanford and what does a place like Berkeley get right in terms of, um, going from academia to, you know, a startup like Databricks, which… 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Dave Burgess (Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest) w/ Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:16 Dave Burgess So I actually, ah, going all the way back, I grew up in a wee village in Scotland, just 500 people, and I studied maths and physics, computer science and numerical analysis, and when I was, ah, when I was doing my masters, I was asked if… 4 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Chip Huyen with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:34 Chip Huyen So, um, so I'm teaching machine learning system design at Stanford.
Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 8:31 Sean Gourley Andre Kapathi is a researcher at Stanford University, a director at Tesla.
Fireside Chat: Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 0:46 Martin Casado And from there, I popped out, and I went to Stanford, where I worked on a lot of the stuff that we kind of originally started working on when I was at the intelligence community, which was trying to make networking, like computer networks,… 2 times in the scene
Building An Info Layer for Personal Health // Allon Bloch, K Health (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 16:03 Allon Bloch But bear in mind, when you go to a doctor next to the Harvard or Stanford medical degree, it doesn't say 92% accuracy for the last 5000 people.
A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 5:47 Daniel Chait We partnered with academic researchers from places like MIT and Stanford, who've done studies on, ah, everything from human psychology of decision making, and the gender workplace issues, to really understand, like, what does the data tell…
A New Approach to Machine Intelligence // Ben Vigoda, Gamalon (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 0:39 Ben Vigoda Um, I started doing deep learning, uh, in about 1989 with David Rumelhart when I was 14, uh, working at Stanford.
- ▶ 19:41 Ben Vigoda Rummel Hart, where I worked, and in Stanford, and other, and Jeff Hinton, the ones who are the luminaries of deep learning came out of that wave, and then it crashed again, and so we, um, what we see really is when it's crashing, um,…
AI Startup Predictions // Bradford Cross - A fireside chat with Matt Turck (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 26:58 Bradford Cross So the very, very technical team, you know, it's like seven, the seven top kids from Stanford, you know, this year.
VC Fireside Chat // Rebecca Lynn, Canvas Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 20:27 Rebecca Lynn At the age of 15, he was running a laser lab at the Beckman Laser Institute, and never graduated from high school or college, and Stanford pulled them into their applied physics program, and he dropped out as like one of the first Teal…
- ▶ 21:55 Rebecca Lynn She was, she worked with me as a Stanford liaison and, you know, she came out to New York.
AI, Big Data, and Data Governance // Stan Christiaens, Collibra (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 21:39 Stan Christiaens But then, you know, I was in Silicon Valley talking to a Stanford guy a number of years ago, and putting forth that European stance.
Big Data at Slack // Noah Weiss, Slack (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:19 Noah Weiss Uh, went to Stuyvesant High School, went to Stanford, studied a mix of, kind of, computer science and econ, and then came back to New York to work at Google here in Chelsea, uh, and worked on a lot of our, kind of, structured data search…
The Path to A.I. Augmented Human Intelligence // Christopher Nguyen, Arimo [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 0:57 Christopher Nguyen That was my undergrad, and then I did my PhD at Stanford, um, and then became a professor, and I started the computer engineering program at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, uh, almost 25 years ago.
Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 13:56 Evan Macmillan I did my undergrad at Stanford.
David Luan, Dextro // Real-World Video Understanding (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 6:46 David Luan And just a few months ago, the main general interest, um, thing that was shown was when, uh, at Stanford, uh, Karpathy's group, they did automatic image captioning by simply hooking up a convolutional neural network to an
Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:41 Ron Gutman Uh, and, uh, you know, started my, uh, my current journey at, uh, Stanford University with basically, uh, looking into, uh, something that was very exciting to me, and, and I propose what we talked before, uh, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:15 Ron Gutman We're connected to all the pharmacies in the country, so if the doctor deems it appropriate, he will prescribe a medication, and it will wait for you in your local pharmacy five minutes after the consultation is done, and the last thing…
Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 14:14 Mike Abbott Brought on to the Kleiner Perkins as a junior partner, one of his finals at Stanford was actually on Kaggle.
- ▶ 17:13 Mike Abbott Um, and if you look at the, you know, the Google driving car, like, we've been spending some time on some of these autonomous driving car efforts, like Andrew Ng's effort at Stanford and a couple of their startups, I mean, we have to…
James Gutierrez, Insikt // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 5:47 James Gutierrez Uh, so I was actually just graduating from business school at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
Tasso Argyros, Aster Data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:01 Matt Turck Alright, so our last couple of speakers, um, happen to have been in the same, uh, PhD class at, uh, Stanford.
- ▶ 0:56 Tasso Argyros I was from Greece, started busy from Stanford, didn't finish, um, started Aster Data back in 2005.
- ▶ 4:43 Tasso Argyros Um, the person you see on the left was a Stanford professor, Rajit Mottwani.
- ▶ 18:52 Tasso Argyros I mean, my advisor at Stanford was the first investor at Google, right?
Itai Gurari, Judicata // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 16:28 Itai Gurari Yeah, so we are, ah, we're currently, ah, 12 people, ah, six engineers, backgrounds, Google, Stanford, um, ah, funny statistic is, ah, three of our engineers, including myself, were at Google, and all three of us took the LSAT, um, but I…
Scott Sorensen, CTO of Ancestry.com // Data Driven 19 // October 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 24:01 Scott Sorensen Well, you know, I, I think that there's studies that have shown at Stanford that more data is better than better algorithms, you know, is more important than better algorithms, and so certainly, ah, we find that as well.
Joe Lonsdale, Formation 8 // Fireside Chat at Data Driven NYC #20 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 1:41 Joe Lonsdale Ah, well, I, I grew up in, in California in Silicon Valley and was computer science at Stanford, and, ah, was there, um, kind of during the bubble, so it was quite an interesting time, and I ended up working at PayPal, and PayPal was a…
- ▶ 5:02 Joe Lonsdale I got to be more of an investor, and my best friend from Stanford, he had a big, pretty good fund, and his, ah, family built LG in Korea, so we were investing together and helping companies, and after Adapar really started to take off, and…
- ▶ 8:24 Joe Lonsdale I think I was, ah, I probably attribute a lot of my success to the fact that I have a lot of smart friends from Stanford and MIT who were able to convince us to work on this, so I think 2 times in the scene
Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
- ▶ 44:16 Josh Becker One is, um, we do, in our IP, we do have a good brand name, because we have one of the top IP academics, Mark Lemley, who's really the founder, the original research at Stanford, and, and, um, kind of founder. 2 times in the scene
Panel: Metamarkets, Kaggle and Quid // Data Driven NYC #4 // Mar 2012
- ▶ 10:11 Mike Driscoll So you have a lot of academics who are used to, you know, they can, they can answer a question, uh, in a Stanford 2 times in the scene