Pieter Abbeel (@pabbeel) — Twitter Score 74 out of 1000

Pieter Abbeel is a professor and AI researcher who co-founded Covariant, a robotics AI company, and works at the University of California, Berkeley and Amazon. Pieter Abbeel's Twitter Score is 74 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #11,149 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.

Pieter Abbeel co-founded Covariant, originally incorporated under the name Embodied Intelligence, alongside Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang. The company raised a total of $222 million across multiple rounds, including a Series B led by Index Ventures, a Series C of $80 million, and an additional $75 million in 2023. In 2024, Amazon agreed to hire Pieter Abbeel and fellow Covariant co-founders Peter Chen and Rocky Duan, and to license Covariant's models and data, with financial terms not disclosed, per WIRED.

Pieter Abbeel also co-founded Gradescope, an AI-assisted grading platform established in 2014, which was acquired by Turnitin in 2018 for an undisclosed sum. Beyond founding activity, Pieter Abbeel is an investment partner at AIX Ventures and previously worked at OpenAI. Pieter Abbeel has 128,256 followers as of October 2026 on the platform and has published 2,699 posts.

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The accounts that follow Pieter Abbeel include 299 founders, 83 angel investors, 35 influencers and 9 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Andrew Kang, Andrej Karpathy and CL. Pieter Abbeel has been mentioned by 64 accounts, with 127 total mentions.