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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.
November 12, 2024
Building the Future: Meet the 2024 Sequoia Open Source Fellows
From one celebrated UC Berkeley lab come two groundbreaking projects: vLLM and Chatbot Arena.
Open source projects draw equity-free funding from corporates, startups, and even VCs
A dearth of funding for vital open source technologies is leading to a swath of support from startups, unicorns, corporations, and even venture capital firms.
October 14, 2024
Alvin Cheung wins Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize
CS Associate Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize. Cheung was cited for his groundbreaking work on “verified lifting,” applying ideas from program synthesis to dramatically improve the end-to-end performance of database-backed applications. The Dahl-Nygaard Prizes, founded in 2004 by the Association Internationale Pour les Technologies Objets (AITO), are the most esteemed honors in object-oriented programming. Named in honor of the pioneering visionaries Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, who created the first object-oriented programming language.
September 25, 2024
Letta, one of UC Berkeley’s most anticipated AI startups, has just come out of stealth
A startup called Letta has just emerged from stealth with tech that helps AI models remember users and conversations. Created in UC Berkeley’s famed labs startup factory, it also announced $10 million in seed money led by Felicis’ Astasia Myers, at a $70 million post-money valuation.
September 11, 2024
Sam Kumar wins 2024 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Runner-up Award
This annual award by SIGSAC recognizes excellent research "for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer and Information Security" by doctoral candidates in the field of computer and information security.