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

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Podcast: [The Robot Brains Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/robot-brains-podcast)
Published: 2023-06-07T14:36:10+00:00
Episode link: https://www.therobotbrains.ai/who-is-rocky-duan
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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. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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