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Carnegie Mellon University

University lab · Research lab · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Carnegie Mellon University is a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It traces its origin to 1900, when Andrew Carnegie funded the Carnegie Technical Schools, and took its current form in 1967, when the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute.12

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Key facts

Legal name
Carnegie Mellon University3
Ownership
Nonprofit
Legal form
Organization recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3), with school public-charity status (170(b)(1)(A)(ii)) in the IRS extract.34
Headquarters
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania13
Founded
19002
Sectors
Research

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

This catalog assesses openness per artifact, not for the university as a whole. MLC LLM, a project listed by CMU Catalyst, is published under the Apache License 2.0.58

Products

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Related open artifacts

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No open-artifact records in this catalog list Carnegie Mellon University. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.

Notable documented facts

  • Catalyst is an interdisciplinary machine learning and systems research group spanning Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments. Its homepage lists research projects including machine learning compilation for large language models (MLC LLM), XGrammar, FlexFlow, Mirage, and Apache TVM.5
  • MLC's 2023 announcement states that the MLC LLM project was initiated by members of CMU Catalyst, UW SAMPL, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), OctoML, and the MLC community. The MLC community site lists CMU and Catalyst among the organizations supporting and contributing to the community.67
  • LMSYS states that it originated in 2023 from a multi-university collaboration that included Carnegie Mellon.9

U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. nonprofit or lab

The IRS exempt-organization extract for Pennsylvania lists Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a 501(c)(3) organization with school status. The university's about page gives its address as 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh.341

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    About | Carnegie Mellon University (external site: cmu.edu)

    Carnegie Mellon University · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
    History | Carnegie Mellon University (external site: cmu.edu)

    Carnegie Mellon University · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    Exempt Organization Business Master File Extract information sheet (external site: irs.gov)

    Internal Revenue Service · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  5. 5.
    CMU Catalyst (external site: catalyst.cs.cmu.edu)

    Carnegie Mellon University (Catalyst group) · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  6. 6.
    Bringing Hardware Accelerated Language Models to Android Devices (external site: blog.mlc.ai)

    MLC community · Announcement · published May 8, 2023 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  7. 7.
    MLC - A Community of Machine Learning Compilers (external site: mlc.ai)

    MLC community · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  8. 8.
    MLC LLM LICENSE (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

    MLC community · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  9. 9.
    About | LMSYS Org (external site: lmsys.org)

    LMSYS · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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