Today, I’m launching a deeply personal project. I’m betting $100M that we can help computer scientists create more upside impact for humanity. Built for and by researchers, including @JeffDean & @jpineau1 on the board, @LaudeInstitute catalyzes research with real-world impact.

RT @simonw: There are some interesting details about how Anthropic trained their models tucked away in today's summary judgement: they boug….

RT @JeffDean: Very cool thread about the CS336 Language Models from Scratch course at Stanford taught by @percyliang et al. Makes me wish….

Cool to see these icons of CS history come to life… Hopper, Berners-Lee, Patterson. Thompson and Ritchie look so happy. The brickster six; actually it’s only 5 in that pic because I was behind the camera 🤦 I also bought the pizza we were eating (from my fav place in Berkeley).

We’re at a hinge moment. Engineered intelligence is no longer theoretical. The systems we build today will shape our future. Whether AI moves society forward or fractures it depends on who is building and why. Seriously, I just gave a whole commencement speech about it.

If you are working on something the world should see:.→ Apply on the laude website for support.→ Come to an event.→ Tell your peers.→ Follow us @LaudeInstitute.And ship your research.

Some of the scientists I admire most are steering @LaudeInstitute — including @JeffDean, @jpineau1, and Dave Patterson on our board, and advisors @alighodsi, @istoica05, @lschmidt3, @matei_zaharia, @denisyarats, @AlexGDimakis, @rxin, & more. Grateful to be building this w/ them.

Two flagship programs:.→ Slingshots fund early-stage research like Terminal-Bench, cited by @AnthropicAI during the Claude 4 launch → Moonshots back long-horizon labs solving species-level challenges

@LaudeInstitute is a non-profit that gives the right resources to the right researchers at the right time. We help more researchers go from idea to impact.

When @matei_zaharia and I published about Hadoop with Ion Stoica in our first year at Berkeley, we shipped the code too. That line of research led Matei to build @ApacheSpark. Spark became @databricks. The lesson stuck with me. Breakthroughs only matter when you ship them.

I <3 meetups, and tonight’s at #DataAISummit is next level - 2k ppl, multi-track, with keynotes. #meetupXXL. I’ll be talking (right after @matei_zaharia) about K Prize, Terminal-Bench, and the noble quest for hard, relevant benchmarks. See you in room 208 at 6pm.

RT @lschmidt3: Very excited to finally release our paper for OpenThoughts!. After DataComp and DCLM, this is the third large open dataset m….

It was surreal to walk onto the stage of the Greek Theatre next to CS legend Dave Patterson and be on the other side of the handshake twelve years after graduating myself on that same stage as Dr. Konwinski. #RunAtFailure -

I don’t want them to fail. But as I said in my speech, “if you optimize for success, you’re not going to pick a hard enough problem. And our problems are existential.". I told them to pick problems they probably won’t solve in their lifetimes. To think about our institutions

If you had 15min to tell thousands of Berkeley CS/Data/Stats grads what to do with their lives, what would you say? Last Thursday I told them to RUN AT FAILURE. Afterwards, while we were shaking hands & taking selfies, hundreds of them told me that they are excited to go fail. I

Run at failure.

Hard to believe there was no widely-adopted terminal usage benchmark before this. IMO the terminal is the perfect agent tool - you can do almost anything with it. Was great teaming up on this with @lschmidt3, @Mike_A_Merrill, @alexgshaw and the whole group!.

Well that was fun. Submissions are closed for the first round of K Prize. Thanks to my team, Kaggle, and the 616 teams that competed! Now we start collecting the test set. First batch of prize winners drops June 11th…