4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
descriptive claim

Alex Zhang now occasionally helps with GPU Mode lectures, is less involved than before, and believes GPU Mode holds fewer competitions than it used to.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

In their words

The transcript segments this claim was taken from

“of like can we get llms to automate gpu kernel code and i think that was like uh it was a very very fun time it was like between college and my phd and yeah i had a really pleasant time doing stuff with gpu mode now i kind of just help with the lectures sometimes i'm not as involved and i think in general like we don't have as many competitions as we used to but um yeah i still keep in touch a lot with with everyone there”
3:01Report a misattribution
0.85how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
0.35importance to the conversation
0.92confidence the claim was read correctly
Alex Zhang now occasionally helps with GPU Mode lectures, is less involved than … · Savlar