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Rocky Duan: from OpenAI to Covariant and building foundation models for robotic automation

Season 3, Ep. 12
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Rocky Duan, CTO of Covariant joins joins Host Pieter Abbeel to talk about his time at OpenAI to founding Covariant to build foundation models for robotic automation.


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