MIT and Stanford Interns Build Educational LLM During 80-Hour Work Weeks at Alpha
Joe Liemandt shares that over 70 students from MIT, Stanford, and UT interned at Alpha over the summer, spending 80 hours a week researching learning science and building a small language model designed for education.
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“We had over 70 MIT and Stanford kids and UT came to Alpha this summer as interns. ... And those kids worked 80 hours a week, right? Figuring out, doing research, figuring out the concepts of learning, right?”
Joe Liemandt
Heard on The a16z Show — “Reinventing School for the AI Era | Joe Liemandt, Gagan Biyani & Erik Torenberg”, published Tuesday, October 27, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.