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title: AI Infrastructure
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged AI Infrastructure.
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last_updated: 2026-05-31
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# AI Infrastructure

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged AI Infrastructure.

## [Musical AI Raises $4.5M: Jesse Robbins Joins Board](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/musical-ai-raises-4-5m-jesse-robbins-board-la-times.md)

*2026-02-04*

Los Angeles Times follow-on coverage of Musical AI's $4.5M round led by Heavybit, with me joining the board. The piece frames Musical AI as rights-aware infrastructure for generative music.

## [Musical AI Bags $4.5M to Scale AI Attribution Tech: Jesse Robbins Joins Board](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/musical-ai-funding-round-mbw-jesse-robbins.md)

*2026-01-13*

Music Business Worldwide broke Musical AI's $4.5M round, led by Heavybit, with me joining the board. The piece covers what Musical AI is building and why attribution matters for generative music.

## [Investing in Vibrant Labs: AI Agent Simulation Infrastructure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/investing-in-vibrant-labs-ai-agent-simulation.md)

*2025-12-03*

Heavybit announcement of our investment in Vibrant Labs, which builds production-grade simulation and verifier-driven evaluation for long-horizon AI agents.

## [Experimentation, Causal Inference, and AI: Sean Taylor of OpenAI and VC Jesse Robbins at Data Council 2025](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/data-council-2025-sean-taylor-openai-jesse-robbins-investor.md)

*2025-04-01*

I interviewed Sean Taylor of OpenAI ahead of Data Council 2025 on experimentation, causal inference, and why AI generates more questions that need empirical answers.

## [Next in Tech Ep. 197: Data Pipelines for AI](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/data-pipelines-for-ai-next-in-tech-podcast.md)

*2024-12-10*

On S&P's Next in Tech I argued that enterprise AI is won on data pipeline quality, not model size, and that data infrastructure is having a DevOps moment right now.

## [The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/the-data-pipeline-is-the-new-secret-sauce.md)

*2024-09-16*

I wrote this at Heavybit in September 2024. The argument: the data pipeline is the differentiating asset in enterprise AI. Includes four inference hosting models and four enterprise maturity phases.

## [AI Investor Jesse Robbins on NYSE Floor Talk](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/jesse-robbins-nyse-floor-talk.md)

*2024-08-05*

On NYSE Floor Talk, August 2024: a short statement of what I invest in now, AI-powered developer tools and infrastructure at the pre-seed and seed stage.

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