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Last night, @agupta and I hosted a great dinner with 14 professors at #NeurIPS2025 from leading academic labs across the US, and many cited compute in academia as "abhorrent". Out of curiosity I just pulled these stats. This is insane. To do meaningful AI research today you need at least 1 GPU/student. Likely 8+ to be honest. The best university (Princeton) is at 0.8 GPUs/student. Stanford is at 0.14 GPUs/student. Marlowe (Stanford's "super cluster") has only 248 H100s for the whole CS Dept to use. Every frontier lab has >100k. This needs to be fixed.
Partner YC | PhD AI Stanford | Founder/CEO Focal Systems
Last night, @agupta and I hosted a great dinner with 14 professors at #NeurIPS2025 from leading academic labs across the US, and many cited compute in academia as "abhorrent". Out of curiosity I just pulled these stats. This is insane. To do meaningful AI research today you need at least 1 GPU/student. Likely 8+ to be honest. The best university (Princeton) is at 0.8 GPUs/student. Stanford is at 0.14 GPUs/student. Marlowe (Stanford's "super cluster") has only 248 H100s for the whole CS Dept to use. Every frontier lab has >100k. This needs to be fixed.
Partner YC | PhD AI Stanford | Founder/CEO Focal Systems