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Sharon Zhou

Co-founder of Lamini

Sharon Zhou
Pabitra Moharana·Published Updated

Key takeaways

  • Sharon Zhou co-founded Lamini to advance the future of large language models (LLMs).
  • Zhou's expertise stems from her research at Stanford, where she led a generative AI group.
  • Lamini collaborates with Meta and AMD, serving Fortune 500 clients in LLM development.
  • Zhou actively teaches generative AI online, reaching millions through lectures and courses.
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“There's only a few hundred of us in the world who truly understand generative AI, and can deeply control and steer LLMs.” Sharon Zhou co-founded Lamini to build the future of LLMs. The company works closely with Meta and AMD, and has developer clients from Fortune 500 companies for running and tuning LLMs.

Prior to Lamini, Zhou was a Stanford CS faculty in generative AI, where she led a research group of 50+ students, and published award-winning research, like the top 1% paper at NeurIPS – all on generative AI. She received her PhD in CS from Stanford. 

Zhou is also passionate about teaching generative AI. She teaches about a million people online, regularly interacts with the audiences, and has several online lectures and courses on LLMs and the broader generative AI landscape.

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