Stanford CS 25 Transformers Course Opens to Public with Live Streaming
Stanford University's CS 25 Transformers course, a seminar focused on transformer architecture research, is now open to public participation through live streaming and auditing options.
Course Details
The course runs on Thursdays from 4:30-5:50pm PDT, starting January 23, 2025. Sessions are held at Stanford's Skilling Auditorium with simultaneous Zoom access for remote participants. All lectures will be recorded and made available online.
Course Content
Each week features researchers discussing transformer breakthroughs, including:
- LLM architectures like GPT and Gemini
- Creative applications in art generation (DALL-E, Sora)
- Biology and neuroscience applications
- Robotics implementations
Speaker Lineup
Previous and upcoming speakers include:
- Andrej Karpathy (former Tesla AI director)
- Geoffrey Hinton (deep learning pioneer)
- Jim Fan (NVIDIA AI researcher)
- Ashish Vaswani (co-author of "Attention Is All You Need")
- Researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and NVIDIA
Access Information
The course website is https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs25/. Previous lectures have accumulated millions of views on YouTube, with the Andrej Karpathy session ranking as Stanford's second most popular YouTube video in 2023. A Discord server with 6000+ members is available through the website link.
This iteration of CS 25 is sponsored by Modal, AGI House, and MongoDB.
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