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CEO StealthStartup, Adjunct Prof at Stanford and GaTech

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Joined June 2011
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@SebastianThrun
Sebastian Thrun
6 years
"According to @LinkedIn ’s analysis of its 500 million users, emerging online educational platforms like @udacity , FreeCodeCamp, and General Assembly have each placed more full-stack engineers into jobs this past year than any American university."
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Sebastian Thrun
7 years
This is me!! One of over 1,000 successful flights so far by about 15 different riders.
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@SebastianThrun
Sebastian Thrun
2 months
Sad to see so many promising AI startup throwing the towel. Are we all back to getting rich fast? Or did those founders all believe that hype is business success? Sad.
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@SebastianThrun
Sebastian Thrun
5 years
Proud to announce that @Udacity has signed the @WhiteHouse Pledge to America’s workers and will fund 100,000 scholarships to empower America’s workers with the tech skills they need to future-proof their careers!
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Sebastian Thrun
2 months
I really wonder why so many AI companies seem to blindly compete for building the same thing: the best foundational models, as measured by some abstract set of benchmarks. It feels like there is now an entire ecosystems of companies that want to outperform GPT.x. Why?
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Sebastian Thrun
2 months
I LOVE the fact that so many AI companies are open sourcing their models. Thank you for placing humanity above shareholders and investors.
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
Extremely proud to have met PM @narendramodi at #ETGBS . Super inspired about our impact with @udacity in India and worldwide. Thank you ⁦ @UdacityINDIA
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5 years
So proud to be an immigrant! I love my country (new and old :).
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6 years
My favorite book review on "Probabilistic Robotics"
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2 years
So great to be back on Twitter. Thank you @elonmusk
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5 years
I just spent time with one of the very largest @udacity enterprise customers, and I learned that they observed a stunning 82% graduation rate from our nanodegree programs. Amazing. We must be doing something right. So happy! Changing the world one learner at the time.
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5 years
Amazing day in the Bay area today
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7 years
Thank you @googledevs . 50,000 scholarships available with @udacity .
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
Giving commencement speech at Georgia tech today. Excited.
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6 years
Just spotted this from my back yard. After rain comes sunshine. So beautiful.
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Sebastian Thrun
4 years
Today was an awful reminder of what happened in Germany on Feb 27, 1933. It didn't end well. I love the USA, I love the freedoms we all enjoy, and and I love democratic system. Let us be stronger than my ancestors in the Weimar Republic.
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@SebastianThrun
Sebastian Thrun
8 years
Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks in @nature :
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Sebastian Thrun
4 years
Fascinating new @Columbia online course on Computer Vision by my friend @shreenayar on @YouTube :
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
Gave commencement speech at ⁦ @harveymudd ⁩ today. Loved it.
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Sebastian Thrun
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I just spent a week without blame. No blaming me, no blaming others. Just enjoy everyone, love life, and live life to the fullest. It was amazing!
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@StanfordAILab @askalphaxiv Excited to be an advisor to arXiv. It's an awesome project and a great service to the community. Finally papers aren't one way any longer.
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
Very very moving. I now have my own tree at @infosys .
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Sebastian Thrun
8 years
Super excited what the @udacity Self driving car team along with many of our students accomplished today. Will provide details soon.
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Sebastian Thrun
7 years
Take my lesson on how my @stanford research team used neural networks to detect + classify skin cancer!
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Sebastian Thrun
8 years
This article makes me insanely happy! . @tomfriedman thanks for explaining me how edu can transform the Middle East.
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Sebastian Thrun
8 years
My thoughts on AI, technology, and the future:
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Sebastian Thrun
7 years
The Cora prototype is the culmination of eight years of hard work from the entire @coraaero team at @kittyhawkcorp . Couldn’t be more proud. #meetcora
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
Come to @udacity and become an AI expert in six months.
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
Perhaps our most exciting program ever!
@udacity
Udacity
6 years
Thanks to our partnership with WorldQuant, you’ll get real-world experience in the fast-growing field of AI-powered financial trading.
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7 years
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
With ⁦ @Infosys ⁩ founder ⁦ @NandanNilekani ⁩ and ⁦ @UdacityINDIA ⁩ head ⁦ @ishan_gupta ⁩ at ⁦ @ET_GBS ⁩ in Delhi. Wish I had more hair :)
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5 years
Couldn't be more excited about @udacity 's willingness to offer a month of our classes for free. This is an unprecedented situation, and none of us knows where it will lead us. I sincerely hope we will emerge strong and united.
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Udacity
5 years
#COVID19 has changed our lives. In a scenario when education and workforce are experiencing some of the biggest challenges, learning new #skills should be made more accessible. Hence, we're excited to announce one free month on 40+ Nanodegree programs.
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8 years
Excited to sign education plan for Saudi Arabia with @MiskKSA and @udacity .
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Sebastian Thrun
1 year
Just saw self driving car cut off fire truck
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Sebastian Thrun
8 years
For all @udacity self driving car students: Awesome study guide:
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
No Need To Have A College Degree: . @elonmusk Try a Nanodegree program at . @udacity
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Sebastian Thrun
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We are now truly democratizing software engineering. With LLMs, computers can be programmed in plain English. So anyone who is fluent in English can now be a programmer. Going forward, who would want to pay big bucks for "experts" to manually generate cryptic computer code? We
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
It’s an incredible time to become a Data Engineer! Our @udacity School of #DataScience just launched the Data Engineering Nanodegree program. Build an impressive portfolio of real-world projects and get valuable hands-on experience. Enroll today:
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Sebastian Thrun
8 years
It's real: Self driving car engineers are top earners:
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Sebastian Thrun
7 years
Just finished reading #Brotopia . Amazing book with lots of learnings. The USA has always led the way in civil rights and inclusive thinking. This book is a painful reminder there is still lots of work to do. Thank you @emilychangtv .
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
I am very proud to share that @Udacity & @Intel have partnered to bring you a new scholarship program for Edge Development! Apply today for this awesome opportunity to learn most cutting-edge technologies #computervision #AI #deeplearning
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Sebastian Thrun
7 years
Check out for some provocative thoughts on Artificial Intelligence....
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Sebastian Thrun
7 years
Inspiring: “How I learned to code in my 30s” by Brad Crispin
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Sebastian Thrun
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Last week I did 5 Google searches and placed 28 questions with ChatGPT. Wonder if others here see similar patterns. So many questions I have on a daily basis are much better served with LLMs.
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LLMs are like mirrors. They are trained with text written by people. So if we find their output to be harmful, we need to remember they just mirror back to us what's readily available on the Internet. Should we punish the mirror if we don't like what we see? Really?
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
Excited to try #focalsbynorth
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Sebastian Thrun
7 years
Anyone want to work on autonomy for flight vehicles? Please apply:
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Sebastian Thrun
8 years
Deep learning for traffic sign detection:
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6 years
Doggy Paradise.
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5 years
Fun being at the #WhiteHouse today.
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8 years
This is really important for students of @udacity . Excited!
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Udacity
8 years
This is BIG: 🚀 Introducing Udacity Blitz—fully managed teams of Udacity alumni engineers scope & build your idea:
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
Excited about the rebirth of #googleglass , the launch of #focalsbynorth (amazing!) and of course my first week into #magicleap . #magicleap is truly magical. Perhaps the most amazing visual AR experience ever. Can't wait for more apps available for the Leap!
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7 years
Course Correction - a great read about GaTech and our joint Masters degree. So proud!!
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8 years
Fun day today, flying an exotic animal!
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
Excited to announce Autonomous Tech Scholarship in partnership with @KPIT for the students in India. Apply Now if you are passionate about self-driving cars like me -
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Sebastian Thrun
10 years
New courses built by Google: http://t.co/wndptmlpje
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
Just got my #MagicLeapOne . Incredible experience. Wow! Best ever!
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
Another great partnership with @Google to bring free Kotlin courses for #Android development. It is one of the fastest-growing #programming languages on Github used by orgs like Netflix & Lyft. This is the #futureofwork ! #coding #edtech
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
Impressive!
@zoox
Zoox
5 years
Driving in the city often requires the ability to fit through very tight spaces.
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
Don't pay $80k. At @udacity you can build a new career for less than $2k. And it'll be more fun. Learning through projects not boring professor videos!
@alexisohanian
Alexis Ohanian 🇦🇲
5 years
Was talking with someone last week about something unrelated + he remarked that he's upset about paying $80K for his daughter to "watch college lectures online" and it dawned on me that this could be the thing that finally bursts the bubble that Peter was talking about years ago.
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7 years
Excited to see @Udacity @Infosys strengthen partnership to fast track engineers into the jobs of tomorrow
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5 years
Excited to be able to do this.
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8 years
Exciting day at @udacity . Love @vishalm as our new CEO and looking forward to pursue more innovation at Udacity;
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
I feel half of my twitter feed is about how bad @united is. I apologize to all my folllowers. I travel a lot and all other airlines treat me fairly. Except @united . I’ll stop using them and apolofize to all of you for complaining. Life is so much better changing the world.
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Sebastian Thrun
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Proud to have received an honorary #degree from #UniHildesheim . Thank you to this leading academic institution. With one of the top-ranked #datascience programs in Germany, they continue to advance the field. #artificialintelligence #AI #machinelearning . And thank you #udacity
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Sebastian Thrun
5 years
Exciting announcement:
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Sebastian Thrun
7 years
Amazing!
@olivercameron
Oliver Cameron
7 years
🎓 12 of our 20-person @voyage team is @udacity educated. Lifelong education is the best.
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Sebastian Thrun
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#Udacity students presenting at Google.
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Sebastian Thrun
8 years
Udacity urgently wants more female software engineers in Silicon Valley and beyond:
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Sebastian Thrun
6 years
Getting ready for the @IndyCar Indy 500. My first. Excited.
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6 years
Super excited to be involved with Cresta - a company that brings self-driving car ideas to transform all of office work:
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