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CS 153: Frontier Systems | Stanford University

Source: https://cs153.stanford.edu/ DiscordFrom energy, silicon and models to applications, security and deployment policy, the infrastructure stack is undergoing a generational rewrite. Each week, this course puts you in the room with the global leaders solving the biggest bottlenecks on frontier technology progress.

Instructors

• AMP PBC
• AMP PBC

Spring 2026 Lineup

• Alex Atallah OpenRouter
• Amanda Askell Anthropic
• Amin Vahdat Google
• Amit Jain Luma AI
• Anastasios Angelopoulos Arena
• Andreas Blattmann Black Forest Labs
• Andrej Karpathy Co-founder, OpenAI
• Ashok Elluswamy VP Autopilot, Tesla
• Ben Horowitz a16z
• Brendan Iribe Sesame · ex-Oculus CEO
• Dogus Cubuk Periodic Labs
• Emil Michael United States
• Garry Tan & Diana Hu Y Combinator
• Jensen Huang NVIDIA
• Joe Sullivan Ex-Uber/Facebook/Cloudflare
• Liam Fedus Periodic Labs
• Mati Staniszewski ElevenLabs
• Nicolai Tangen Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund
• Nikhyl Singhal Founder, Skip Community
• Prithvi Rajasekaran Anthropic
• Reiner Pope MatX
• Rob Riachi Google DeepMind
• Sam Altman OpenAI
• Satya Nadella Microsoft
• Scott Nolan General Matter
• Sriram Krishnan US Gov/Whitehouse
• Speakers to be added subject to scheduling. Specific dates are not shared until the day of class.

Course Project

The One-Person Frontier Lab

One person with the right tools can now produce what once required an organization. 10 weeks. One goal: create value for the world. See how far you can scale yourself.

Details

WhenTue / Thu 12:00–1:20 PMWhereHewlett Teaching Center 200DatesMar 30 – Jun 3, 2026 (10 weeks)Units3 unitsPrereqsCS110/111 (req) · CS155 (rec)Grading65% Attendance · 35% ProjectReadingsReadings & Materials

Course Staff

InstructorsAnjney Midha, Michael Abbott ([email protected])TAsAdrian A, Ramya I, Anthony MContact[email protected]

Archive

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