Organization
Stanford University
Stanford University is a university headquartered in Stanford, California23. This catalog lists 2 software projects and 2 evaluation tools from Stanford University, under licenses including the Apache License 2.0 and the MIT License.
Documented roles: University lab · Research lab
Stanford University is a university in Stanford, California, founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford; it admitted its first students in 1891. Its AI research groups include the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) and the Stanford NLP Group.1259
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Key facts
- Legal name
- The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University3
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Nonprofit
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Legal form
- Organization recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3); the IRS extract classifies it as a trust with school public-charity status (170(b)(1)(A)(ii)).34
- Sectors
- Research
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Frameworks
- DSPySoftwareAvailability: Public
Research stacks
- MarinSoftwareAvailability: Public
Evaluation tools
- HELM (Holistic Evaluation of Language Models)Evaluation toolAvailability: Public
- Terminal-BenchEvaluation toolAvailability: Public
Notable documented facts
- The Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) is an interdisciplinary initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). CRFM created HELM, an open-source framework for evaluating foundation models, which entered maintenance mode on June 1, 2026.567
- The Stanford NLP Group, whose members come from the Linguistics, Computer Science, and other departments, lists DSPy among the software it develops. The DSPy repository sits in the Stanford NLP GitHub organization, and its MIT license names Stanford Future Data Systems as the copyright holder.91011
- LMSYS, the nonprofit that hosts the SGLang project, states that it originated in 2023 from a multi-university collaboration that included Stanford.12
In the news
DSPy 3.4.1 makes InstructionProposer the default for GEPA and adds Python 3.15 support
On October 12, 2026 DSPy 3.4.1 was published on the project's GitHub repository. The release notes say it makes GEPA's structured InstructionProposer the default instruction proposer, lets dspy.RLM build DSPy sub-agents from inside its REPL, adds Python 3.15 support, and fixes a 3.4.0 import crash. The notes warn that GEPA's default reflection request changes shape, so optimization results can differ from 3.4.0 even with the same seed, and that the reflection LM must now be a dspy.LM that can return JSON. USASI has not tested this release.
Marin begins pretraining Marin 535B-A23B, a mixture-of-experts model
In a launch note dated September 3, 2026, first published on the Open Athena blog and mirrored by Marin, Marin said it had started pretraining Marin 535B-A23B a couple of weeks earlier. The note describes a mixture-of-experts model with 535 billion total parameters and 23 billion active, planned to pretrain for about three months on 18 trillion tokens, and says the team ported its infrastructure and training stack from Google TPUs on GCP to NVIDIA GPUs on CoreWeave before launch, with post-training to follow. It says the entire run, including architecture, data, and predicted loss, is documented on GitHub; it does not give a date or license for releasing the model's weights.
Terminal-Bench 4.0 released as a new major version of the continuous benchmark
The Terminal-Bench team published version 4.0 of its command-line agent benchmark on August 28, 2026, a month after announcing that it would be maintained as a continuous benchmark with semantic versioning. The release removed eight tasks, fixed nineteen, and set a flat eight-hour agent timeout for every task; it is a major version because these changes require re-running trials. It runs through the Harbor framework.
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The IRS exempt-organization extract for California lists The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, in Stanford, California, as a 501(c)(3) organization with school status. Stanford's facts page places the university in Stanford, California.342
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title = {Stanford University},
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