Prospective Students

Course Staff

Instructor (Guest) Co-instructor
Dawn Song Xinyun Chen
Dawn Song Xinyun Chen
Professor, UC Berkeley Research Scientist, Meta

Guest Speakers

Yann Dubois
Yann Dubois
Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI
Yangqing Jia
Yangqing Jia
VP, Al System Software
NVIDIA
Jiantao Jiao
Jiantao Jiao
Director of Research & Distinguished Scientist
NVIDIA
Weizhu Chen
Weizhu Chen
Technical Fellow & CVP
Microsoft
Noam Brown
Noam Brown
Research Scientist
OpenAI
Sida Wang
Sida Wang
Research Scientist
Meta
James Zou
James Zou
Professor
Stanford
Oriol Vinyals
Oriol Vinyals
VP, Research
Google DeepMind
Peter Stone
Peter Stone
Chief Scientist at Sony Al, Professor at UT Austin
Sony AI

Class Time and Location

Lecture: 3-5pm PT Monday (starts Sep 15, 2025)

Course Description

Agentic AI is the new frontier and poised to transform the future of our daily life with the support of intelligent task automation and personalization. In this course, we will first discuss fundamental concepts that are essential for Agentic AI, including the foundation of LLMs, reasonsing, planning, agentic frameworks and infrastructure. We will also cover representative agent applications, including code generation, robotics, web automation, and scientific discovery. Meanwhile, we will discuss limitations and potential risks of current LLM agents, and share insights into directions for further improvement.

Syllabus

Date Lecture
(3:10PM-5:00PM PT)
Supplemental Readings
Sep 15 LLM Agents Overview
Yann Dubois, OpenAI
Slides Recording Quiz
- KIMI K2: Open Agentic Intelligence
- DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
Sep 22 Evolution of system designs from an AI engineer perspective
Yangqing Jia, NVIDIA
Slides Recording Quiz
Sep 29 Post-Training Verifiable Agents
Jiantao Jiao, NVIDIA
Live Stream
- Introducing SWE-bench Verified
- BrowseComp: a benchmark for browsing agents
Oct 6 Agent Evaluation & Project Overview
Oct 13 Weizhu Chen, Microsoft
Oct 20 Noam Brown, OpenAI
Oct 27 Sida Wang, Meta
Nov 3 James Zou, Stanford
Nov 10 Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind
Nov 17 TBA
Nov 24 Peter Stone, UT Austin / Sony AI
Dec 1 Agentic AI Safety & Security
Dawn Song, UC Berkeley
Dec 8 No lecture — RRR week