2025-08-17
From my limited interactions with @istoica05, I see him as one of the best computer scientists of our times. He is a true intellect who not only knows integrating academic research with commercial systems, but also how to build the entire ecosystem of people and technological
Forbes
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-s...
2025-08-16
From my limited interactions with @istoica05, I see him as one of the best computer scientists of our times. He is a true intellect who not only knows integrating academic research with commercial systems, but also how to build the entire ecosystem of people and technological
Forbes
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
This computer science professor became a billionaire launching four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including unicorns Databricks and Anyscale.
2024-02-07
🤩Apple opensources MGIE! Now one can take random pictures w. iPhone & edit w. language! Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models #ICLR2024 spotlight: https://openreview.net/... Apple repo https://github.com/... Gradio https://github.com/... [video]
VentureBeat
Apple partners with University of California researchers to release open-source AI model MGIE, which can edit images based on natural language instructions
Apple has released a new open-source AI model, called “MGIE,” that can edit images based on natural language instructions.