Pieter Abbeel
Investment Partner at AIX Ventures
Berkeley, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist
2017 - Current
Drawing on recent advances in Deep Imitation Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning, Embodied Intelligence is developing AI software that makes it easy to teach robots new, complex skills.
Covariant is an AI Robotics company developing a universal AI that enables robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them.
Raised $222,000,000.00 from CPP Investments, Radical Ventures, AIX Ventures, Northgate Capital, Gates Frontier Fund, Index Ventures, Amplify Partners, CPP Investments, Amplify Partners and Radical Ventures.
Professor
2008
Research and teaching in artificial intelligence and robotics. Lately, that largely means in deep learning, reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, self-supervised learning, meta-learning. Some things we invented in our research: TRPO, MAML, InfoGAN, SAC, GAE, MA-DDPG, Domain Randomization, Hindsight Experience Replay... Some classes I teach: - Deep Unsupervised Learning: https://sites.google.com/view/berkeley-cs294-158-sp20/home - Intro to AI: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/fa18/staff.html - The Business of AI: https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/zskatona/ewmba267-11-s21.html
Investment Partner
2021
Try my best to help AI start-ups
Podcast Host
2021
In each episode of The Robot Brains podcast (coming soon), renowned artificial intelligence researcher, professor and entrepreneur Pieter Abbeel meets the brilliant minds attempting to build robots with brains. Pieter is joined by leading experts in AI Robotics from all over the world as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines and rational robots. https://open.spotify.com/show/2qbLq3HrhTnnmmsHc37QOD
Co-Founder
2014 - 2018
Gradescope was acquired by TurnItIn in Fall 2018! Gradescope is a web-app that streamlines grading, with instructors reporting it allows them to grade 2x faster while also improving accuracy, consistency and transparency, and without compromising on assessment format. It's free, you should try it out if you 'd like to spend less time on grading without compromising on quality!
Gradescope enables instructors to grade paper-based assignments online.
Raised $5,474,700.00 from Reach Capital, Ironfire Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Freestyle Capital, GSV Ventures and K9 Ventures.
Research Scientist
2016 - 2017
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.
Raised $21,900,120,000.00 from Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, HSBC and Santander.
Ph.D. student
2002 - 2008
Undergrad Electrical Engineering
1995 - 2000
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
2002 - 2008
Master of Science (MS)
2000 - 2002
BS/MS
1995 - 2000
High School
1989 - 1995