"AI Infrastructure"
Musical AI Raises $4.5M: Jesse Robbins Joins Board
Los Angeles Times reports Musical AI raised $4.5M led by Heavybit, with Jesse Robbins joining the board to support attribution and rights-compliant generative music systems.
Musical AI Bags $4.5M to Scale AI Attribution Tech: Jesse Robbins Joins Board
Music Business Worldwide reports on Musical AI's $4.5M round led by Heavybit, with Jesse Robbins joining the board to help scale AI attribution infrastructure.
“Musical AI's attribution technology is essential infrastructure that will enable and accelerate every media-focused AI product.”
Investing in Vibrant Labs: AI Agent Simulation Infrastructure
Heavybit invests in Vibrant Labs, which builds production-grade simulation for AI agents. Jesse Robbins on why you cannot ship reliable agents without testing them in realistic environments first.
“Vibrant Labs opens a new frontier in AI infrastructure: production-grade, RL-ready simulation and verifier-driven evaluation built for long-horizon agents.”
Experimentation, Causal Inference, and AI: Sean Taylor of OpenAI and VC Jesse Robbins at Data Council 2025
Experimentation, causal inference, and why AI generates more questions needing empirical answers: Jesse Robbins interviews Sean Taylor of OpenAI ahead of Data Council 2025.
“AI provides an opportunity to radically improve how we do things.”
Next in Tech Ep. 197: Data Pipelines for AI
Jesse Robbins makes the case that enterprise AI will be won not by whoever has the biggest model, but by whoever builds the best data pipeline, and that data infrastructure is having its own 'DevOps moment' right now.
“Data pipelines are having a DevOps moment, starting with a cultural and technical shift toward continuous integration and delivery.”
The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce
Jesse Robbins on why data pipelines and inference are AI infrastructure's biggest unsolved challenges — and how enterprises move from first experiments to mature AI programs.
“The biggest challenge emerging is building and operating the infrastructure both for creating and running the data pipelines to build, manage, and maintain a robust, secure body of proprietary data.”
AI Investor Jesse Robbins on NYSE Floor Talk
Jesse Robbins discusses his operator-driven approach to investing in developer tools and AI-enabled infrastructure companies on NYSE Floor Talk, highlighting portfolio companies like PagerDuty, LaunchDarkly, Snyk, Tailscale, and Sanity.
“I am focused on investing in pre-seed and seed companies using AI to enable new ways of writing software, of managing and deploying the software and infrastructure that powers everything.”
Incident Response and DevOps in the Age of Generative AI
Jesse Robbins convenes a panel of incident management veterans to examine where generative AI genuinely helps in SRE and DevOps — and where humans must stay in the loop.
“GenAI is good at confidently delivering text that is pleasant to read, but not always complete, or correct.”