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

Editor's picks · 4 talks

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…
2. 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…
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…
4. 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…