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Best Talks at Stanford CS153: Technology Entrepreneurship — Infra @ Scale (Winter 2025)

Hand-picked from in-depth reviewer verdicts — the top 4 talks from this conference. Skip the noise, find the signal.

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  1. 1

    Building Cursor: AI-Native Development Tools

    Sualeh Asif

    In this insightful talk at CS153 Infra @ Scale 2025, Sualeh Asif, CTO and Co-Founder of Cursor, provided an unfiltered, deep dive into the formidable infrastructure powering Cursor, an AI-native development tool that has scaled by a factor of 100 or more within the last year…

    S Simon Wisk STRONG ACCEPT ★★★★☆ J Jensen Hitch SOLID ★★★☆☆
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    Palantir: Building AI for Defense and Enterprise

    Shyam Sankar

    In this insightful talk at CS153 Infra @ Scale 2025, Shyam Sankar, CTO and Executive Vice President of Palantir, provided a comprehensive look into the foundational infrastructure and philosophical underpinnings that enable Palantir to deliver cutting-edge AI capabilities for…

    S Simon Wisk SOLID ★★★☆☆ J Jensen Hitch SOLID ★★★☆☆
  3. 3

    Building Mistral: Open Frontier Models

    Guillaume Lample

    In this insightful talk from CS153 Infra @ Scale 2025, Guillaume Lample, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Mistral AI, provides a comprehensive look into the journey of building and deploying **frontier open-source models**. Lample, a pivotal figure in the development of Meta's…

    S Simon Wisk SOLID ★★★☆☆ J Jensen Hitch SOLID ★★★☆☆
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    Thorn: AI for Child Safety at Scale

    Julie Cordua

    In this compelling and critically important talk, Julie Cordua, CEO of Thorn, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting children online, unveiled the staggering scale of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and the innovative technological solutions Thorn is deploying to combat it. The…

    S Simon Wisk SOLID ★★★☆☆ J Jensen Hitch SOLID ★★★☆☆