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Stanford CS336 Spring 2026: Full LLM-from-Scratch Curriculum Public
June 1, 2026
Stanford's CS336, taught by Percy Liang and Tatsunori Hashimoto, covers building language models from scratch including architecture, training, and evaluation, with lecture recordings on YouTube. Now in its third offering with Spring 2026 materials available.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderThe YouTube lecture series gives engineers a free, structured path to deep LM internals without needing Stanford enrollment.
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researcherYou can use the public curriculum and recordings as a structured reference for foundational LLM training methodology from a rigorous academic source.