Stanford CS336 | Language Modeling from Scratch

Stanford launched CS336, a 5-unit, project-heavy course on building a language model end to end.

Students will work on tokenizers, model construction, GPU and distributed optimization, scaling analysis, data processing, and alignment.

The course highlights hands-on skills for training and tuning modern LLMs, not just using them.

It also reflects growing demand for expertise in transformer systems, data pipelines, and distributed GPU infrastructure.