March 10, 2025
Entrepreneurship
January 17, 2025
Ion Stoica featured on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast
EECS Professor and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica is featured on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast.
September 24, 2024
Letta, one of UC Berkeley’s most anticipated AI startups, has just come out of stealth
“Founded by Berkeley PhD students Sarah Wooders and Charles Packer, this is a highly anticipated AI startup launch. That’s because it’s a child of Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab and is the commercial entity of the popular MemGPT open source project.”
May 31, 2024
Governor Newsom convenes GenAI leaders for landmark summit
California Governor Gavin Newsom and leaders representing technology, government, academia, labor, civic organizations and more convened at the Joint California Summit on Generative AI to collaborate on and examine this transformative technology. The summit included CDSS Dean and EECS Professor Jennifer Chayes, EECS Associate Professor Matei Zaharia, and EECS alumna…
March 11, 2024
How the A.I. That Drives ChatGPT Will Move Into the Physical World
The New York Times profiles Covariant, an Emeryville-based AI and robotics company founded by CS Professor Pieter Abbeel and his former students, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang.
January 31, 2024
SAP Collaborates with UC Berkeley to Advance AI Research
“UC Berkeley’s research activities focus on enabling users to run large language model applications and general AI workloads seamlessly on any cloud, substantially reducing cloud costs, tapping into best-in-class hardware on different clouds and enjoying higher resource availability, according to Ion Stoica, director of the Sky Computing Lab at UC…
August 3, 2023
AI-dating app co-founded by Berkeley CS Students featured on “The Today Show”
Charis Zhang, Oliver Johansson, and Tobias Worledge, three Berkeley CS undergraduates, have co-founded RIZZ!, an AI-dating app that uses AI to generate witty and charming messages. The app, which was featured on “The Today Show,” has helped users drastically reduce the time between chatting online and meeting in person. “Traditionally…
June 6, 2023
Novel agriculture-tech platform developed by Ana Arias and Kristofer Pister featured in Berkeley Engineer
Professors Ana Arias and Kristofer Pister were featured in the Spring 2023 issue of Berkeley Engineer, showcasing their recent development of a tracking system for agricultural land which uses a novel printed sensor array and a wireless communications platform. The technology, dubbed the SmartStake system, uses stake-mounted sensors to provide an…
May 31, 2023
Joseph Hellerstein wins SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Professor Joseph Hellerstein was awarded the 2023 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, citing innovative contributions in extensible query processing, interactive data analytics, and declarative approaches to networking and distributed computing. The award is given for innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use…