Meet the people building the future of AI.
Students don’t just learn about Silicon Valley. They go inside it, touring AI startups and Stanford, watching live product demos, and asking founders and researchers their questions directly.
Where our students have been
A look at recent visits. Each session includes at least one AI startup and a Stanford visit, and sites vary by session.
Featured Visit
Y Combinator Startup
Zyphra
A full-stack, open-source AI research lab developing foundation models across vision, audio, language, and brain-computer interfaces.
From Zyphra’s offices on the 44th floor of Salesforce Tower, students heard directly from the CEO and Chief of Staff, learned how AI researchers and engineers spend their days, and explored careers in a fast-moving field.
RealPact AI
RealPact builds AI agents that automate the work behind real estate deals, from pulling property and tax records to filling out contracts and tracking deadlines. Students met the founding team, watched a live demo, and heard how an idea became a YC startup.
KOS AI
KOS AI combines wearables, AI-driven insights, and secure cloud services to transform healthcare. Its Blueberry wristband collects health and environmental data to give users real-time insights. The visit was organized by Stanford M.S. researcher Casey Nguyen.
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab
Students toured the research group of renowned reinforcement learning researcher Benjamin Van Roy and heard from Henrik Marklund, a Stanford PhD working on AI safety and alignment.
Live Demo
Cardinal Robotics
A fast-growing Stanford startup building cleaning robots for some of the largest hotel chains, hospitals, airports, and retail brands. At the Stanford Robotics Center, students get a live demo of the robots and the robotics solutions behind them, led by Dr. Anand Lalwani, a Stanford PhD alum.
From the classroom to the real world
Visits are timed so students see what they just learned at work inside a real company.
IN CLASS
AI ethics and bias auditing
IN THE FIELD
Discuss AI safety with engineers and policy experts at Truth Systems
Tour the office
See the workspaces where AI products are designed, trained, and shipped.
Hear from founders
Learn how the team turned an idea into a company, and what they’d tell their high school selves.
Watch a live demo
See the product in action and connect it to the models and agents you’re building in class.
Ask anything
Open Q&A about careers, college paths, and where AI is headed next.
Beyond the Office: A Stanford AI-Focused Field Trip
Walk the Stanford campus with AI PhD candidates who study and research there, and get a feel for life at one of the world’s leading universities for AI.
Experience Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is renowned as the global hub of technological innovation, boasting a dense concentration of tech giants and startups alike. Home to iconic companies such as Google, Apple, and Meta, Silicon Valley drives groundbreaking advancements in fields ranging from artificial intelligence to biotechnology. As a student in the Inspirit AI Silicon Valley Program, you will join our leading AI instructors from Stanford University to participate in a dynamic educational experience at the forefront of technology and AI.
The epicenter of technological innovation
A vibrant ecosystem for startups, providing access to venture capital, mentorship, and networking opportunities
Global influence—from how we communicate and do business to how we navigate the world around us