Pieter Abbeel is a UC Berkeley professor and Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab who became a Founding Investment Partner at AIX Ventures, giving him unusually deep technical and research credibility compared with most investors. As host of The Robot Brains Podcast, he regularly interviews leading founders and researchers such as Andrej Karpathy, Geoff Hinton, and John Schulman, giving him a structured way to build deep relationships with frontier AI talent that also complements his role as an AI investor. Pieter Abbeel is a UC Berkeley professor and Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab who became a Founding Investment Partner at AIX Ventures, giving him unusually deep technical and research credibility compared with most investors. As host of The Robot Brains Podcast, he regularly interviews leading founders and researchers such as Andrej Karpathy, Geoff Hinton, and John Schulman, giving him a structured way to build deep relationships with frontier AI talent that also complements his role as an AI investor.