Stanford CS25 returns with public Transformer talks
Stanford’s CS25 is back for its sixth iteration, running during Spring Quarter on Thursdays from 4:30-5:50pm PDT at Skilling Auditorium and on Zoom. The course is openly auditable by anyone, with lecture recordings posted online, and it focuses on the latest Transformer research spanning LLMs, art generation, biology, neuroscience, and robotics. Instructors this term are Steven Feng, Karan Singh, Michael C. Frank, and Christopher Manning, and the first session is an overview of Transformers.
Hot take: this is less a traditional class launch than a public-facing AI conference series with Stanford branding, and that makes it unusually valuable for people who want recurring access to frontier researchers without a conference badge.
- –The biggest draw is access: anyone can audit in person or join the livestream without affiliation.
- –Recorded talks make it much more durable than a one-off event; the audience is effectively global.
- –The speaker/topic mix is strong for anyone tracking where Transformer research is actually moving.
- –This is especially relevant for LLM builders because it combines research history, architecture discussion, and applied demos in one venue.
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