Stanford CS25 V6: A Course Called Transformers United Whose First Two Talks Weren't About Transformers
CS25 is Stanford's 1-unit seminar where attendance is the only homework and anyone can audit. Of the nine talks in the Spring 2026 season, the three worth your time are Albert Gu on the inductive biases of SSMs vs Transformers, Charles Frye on serving inference across thousands of GPUs, and Victoria Lin on what native multimodality still hasn't solved.