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Stanford is a place of discovery, creativity and innovation located in the San Francisco Bay Area on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Dedicated to our founding mission—benefitting society through research and education—we are working toward a sustainable future, accelerating the impact of research with external partners, catalyzing discoveries about ourselves and our world, and educating students as global citizens. Our main campus, which welcomed its first class in 1891, is now home to 650+ student organizations, 36 varsity athletic teams, 20 libraries, 21 living Nobel laureates, 18 interdisciplinary research institutes, seven schools, and a vibrant arts scene. More than 9,000 graduate students and 7,000 undergraduates pursue studies at Stanford each year. Our financial aid program, one of the most generous in the nation, makes it possible for any admitted undergraduate to attend without taking on student debt.

Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.

Deepgram is the real-time API platform powering the trillion-dollar Voice AI economy. Backed by a $130M Series C at a $1.3B valuation, Deepgram is trusted by 200,000+ developers and 1,300+ organizations to build Voice AI products, platforms, and autonomous agents with the lowest latency, highest accuracy, and enterprise reliability. Our voice-native foundation models and runtime infrastructure have processed 50,000+ years of audio and over 1 trillion words, making Deepgram the most experienced voice AI platform in the world. Industry-leading models & platform: 👂 Nova-3 — the world’s most accurate real-time speech-to-text model 🔊 Aura-2 — professional, enterprise-grade text-to-speech 💬 Flux — the first Conversational Speech Recognition model designed to handle interruptions 🚀 Voice Agent API — enterprise-ready, real-time conversational AI 🧠 Saga — the Voice OS Beyond core infrastructure, Deepgram is expanding the Voice AI ecosystem through: 💪 Powered by Deepgram, supporting voice products built by leading AI startups and enterprise organizations 🌉 A new Voice AI Collaboration Hub in San Francisco for builders, partners, and the voice community 🍔 The acquisition of OfOne, delivering real-time Voice AI for restaurants and drive-thru operations with 95%+ containment 📃 A growing patent portfolio in Voice AI Much like APIs powered the payments and cloud economies, Deepgram is building the foundation for a trillion-dollar B2B Voice AI economy—centered on the most natural human interface: voice.