Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work
all 3 @UofCalifornia professors. Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation and possibility, California is proud to dream big and deliver even bigger. @e...
A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks
championed by colleagues like @trevordarrell, @pabbeel, @istoica05, and others—is leading the nation, unleashing the creativity of top students and research labs through industry-sponsored open-source...
AI model ranking project LMArena spins off from UC Berkeley and raises a $100M seed led by a16z and UC Investments, sources say at a $600M valuation
An effort that began at UC Berkeley as a way to rank AI models has raised $100 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz.
Anyscale, which helps apps run efficiently across distributed infrastructure with the Ray open source framework, raises $100M Series C led by a16z and Addition
The UC Berkeley computer science labs, from which seven academics formed $38 billion data startup Databricks, have minted a second billion-dollar business.
Researchers from Facebook, UC Berkeley, and CMU develop AI-controlled walking robots that adapt in real-time to changing terrain like rocks and stairs
Robots have a hard time improvising, and encountering an unusual surface or obstacle usually means an abrupt stop or hard fall.
Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft are having mixed results in building statewide vaccination sign-up websites, due to difficulties in integrating county systems
As the nation takes on one of the largest logistical challenges in history with the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination program … Tweets: @cfarivar , @aprilaser , @digiphile , and @digiphile Tweets: C...
A look back at HOTorNOT, created in 2000 by two UC Berkeley grads on a lark, which was one of the first popular sites to let users create a public profile
Kiwibots, the “parallel autonomy” food delivery bots popular with students at UC Berkeley, are remotely piloted by workers in Colombia who are paid $2/hour
Karis Tang, age 2½, squealed with excitement when she saw a Kiwibot rolling through Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley. Tweets: @rikabel , @matthewbevan , @harrysiegel , @matthewbevan , @mariafarrell , @jake...
Urmila Mahadev, a UC Berkeley grad student, solves the fundamental problem of finding a protocol by which a classical computer can verify a quantum computation
Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation … Tweets: @quantamagazine , @phabcd , @chelskilittle , @lbnlphysics , @quantamagazine...
UC Berkeley open sources the world's largest autonomous driving dataset containing 100K video sequences across various US locations
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