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May 7, 2025
PyTorch Foundation Welcomes vLLM as a Hosted Project
The PyTorch Foundation is excited to welcome vLLM as a PyTorch Foundation-hosted project. Contributed by the University of California – Berkeley, vLLM is a high-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engine designed for LLMs.
April 17, 2025
Broadcom expands support for UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab
Following VMware’s long-standing sponsorship, Broadcom is deepening its collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab through a $4 million gift. This expanded collaboration reinforces a shared commitment to innovation and interoperability, building on both organizations’ histories of addressing complex industry challenges through cutting-edge research.
April 7, 2025
Ion Stoica and John Schulman recognized with UC Berkeley Achievement Awards
Stoica, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, is the recipient of the 2025 Fiat Lux Faculty Award. The award recognizes a Berkeley faculty member whose extraordinary contributions advance the university’s philanthropic mission and transform its research, teaching. and programs.
February 21, 2025
Sky Computing Lab receives NVIDIA DGX B200 for AI research
This week, the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley EECS became the first research institution in the nation to receive NVIDIA’s cutting-edge DGX B200 system.
February 19, 2025
Prof. Natacha Crooks named Sloan Fellow
The awards honor early career researchers who have demonstrated innovation and creativity.
February 4, 2025
NBC News: Ion Stoica on DeepSeek
January 29, 2025
How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Silicon Valley Giants
The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.
January 14, 2025
Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450
So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop.
December 12, 2024
The UC Berkeley Project That Is the AI Industry’s Obsession
Ranking AI is tricky, so two students developed a way to make the best bots battle
December 9, 2024
UC Berkeley announces Intel OneAPI Center of Excellence for AI
The center will serve as a hub for cutting-edge applied research in generative AI (GenAI), drawing on the collective knowledge and resources of Intel and the UC Berkeley research community, including the Sky Computing Lab, BAIR, and other affiliated labs.