University of California, Berkeley

Website

berkeley.edu (external site: berkeley.edu)

Ownership

Public institution

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A campus of the University of California. The University of California is governed by The Regents, which hold full powers of organization and governance under Article IX, Section 9 of the California Constitution.31

Headquarters

Berkeley, California2

Founded

186812

Sectors

Research

This catalog assesses openness per artifact, not for the university as a whole. The Gorilla repository, which contains the BFCL code, is published under the Apache License 2.0. vLLM, contributed by UC Berkeley, is now governed as a PyTorch Foundation-hosted project.95

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• In May 2025 the PyTorch Foundation accepted vLLM, an inference and serving engine for large language models contributed by the University of California, Berkeley, as a foundation-hosted project.5
• The Sky Computing Lab presents itself as the next Berkeley lab for data-intensive systems research after AMPLab and RISELab; its stated aim is to let applications run on any cloud or on several clouds at once.4
• The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) is described in an ICML 2025 paper whose authors are all affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. The leaderboard is hosted at gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu, and its dataset is published by the Hugging Face organization "Gorilla LLM (UC Berkeley)".678
• LMSYS states that it originated in 2023 from a multi-university collaboration that included UC Berkeley. Chatbot Arena, which began as a research project under UC Berkeley and LMSYS, is now operated by Arena Intelligence Inc., a company formed in 2025 that describes Arena as created by researchers from UC Berkeley.101112

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   University of California, Berkeley · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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   History & discoveries | University of California, Berkeley (external site: berkeley.edu)

   University of California, Berkeley · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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   About the Regents | Board of Regents (external site: regents.universityofcalifornia.edu)

   University of California Board of Regents · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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   UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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   PyTorch Foundation Welcomes vLLM as a Hosted Project (external site: pytorch.org)

   PyTorch Foundation · Announcement · published May 7, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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   Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (ICML 2025) · Paper · published 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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   Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (external site: gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu)

   UC Berkeley Gorilla project · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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   gorilla-llm/Berkeley-Function-Calling-Leaderboard dataset card (external site: huggingface.co)

   Gorilla LLM (UC Berkeley) · Dataset card · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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   Gorilla LICENSE (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

   Gorilla project · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    About | LMSYS Org (external site: lmsys.org)

    LMSYS · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    LMArena and The Future of AI Reliability (external site: arena.ai)

    Arena Intelligence Inc. · Announcement · published May 27, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    About Us - Arena.ai (external site: arena.ai)

    Arena Intelligence Inc. · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026