Jiaxin Pei, Assistant Professor at UT Austin and research fellow at Stanford HAI, posted that the university is partnering with OpenAI to start an AI Startup Class. The course, listed as INF 385T Building Large Language Model Applications, runs 15 weeks and seeks to combine top computing, engineering, and business students with resources to produce YC-ready AI products. Pei described the effort as experimental and built on the hypothesis that mixing those student groups yields strong results. The post included a promotional graphic for the class.