Stanford CS 25 Transformers Course (OPEN TO ALL | Starts Tomorrow)
Stanford's hottest AI seminar, featuring Andrej Karpathy and Geoffrey Hinton, is now free and open to all online.
Stanford University is democratizing access to cutting-edge AI education by opening its coveted CS25: Transformers course to the public for free. Starting April 4th, anyone can audit the weekly lectures live via Zoom or watch recordings afterward. The seminar has become one of Stanford's most popular AI courses, known for its 'intimate discussions' with leading researchers and a global audience that has generated millions of YouTube views. Its 2023 session featuring former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy was the second most-viewed video uploaded by Stanford that year.
The course structure is a deep dive into the Transformer architecture, the foundational model behind modern AI systems. Each week, a different pioneer from organizations like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA discusses the latest breakthroughs. The curriculum spans core LLM architectures (GPT, Gemini), creative applications (DALL-E, Sora), and scientific use cases in biology, neuroscience, and robotics. The initiative is supported by sponsors including Modal and AGI House, and fosters community through a dedicated Discord server with over 6000 members.
- Free public access to Stanford's elite CS25 seminar, featuring weekly talks from AI pioneers like Andrej Karpathy and Geoffrey Hinton.
- Curriculum covers Transformer breakthroughs in LLMs (GPT, Gemini), AI art (Sora, DALL-E), robotics, and science, starting live on April 4th.
- Course has a massive global footprint, with millions of YouTube views and an active 6000+ member Discord community for participants.
Why It Matters
Provides unprecedented, free access to frontier AI knowledge directly from the researchers building the models shaping our future.