At 'AI Coachella,' Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty

Stanford’s CS 153, nicknamed “AI Coachella,” filled all 500 seats quickly amid intense student demand.

The class is co-taught by former tech and venture leaders and features guest talks from top AI and Silicon Valley executives.

Speakers include figures tied to OpenAI, Nvidia, Microsoft, AMD, Anthropic, and other frontier AI companies.

The course covers frontier AI infrastructure and chip economics, including topics like AI hardware and Nvidia H100s.

Its popularity has sparked debate over whether elite AI education is becoming too closely tied to industry access and venture-backed influence.