Chief Scientist at @iconicgamesio | Honorary Research Fellow @imperialcollege | prev @SonyAI_global @Meta
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Borja G. León retweeted
Our Open-Endedness team at @GoogleDeepMind has a few openings for Student Researchers.
Maxence is a fantastic researcher and mentor, so please apply if you are interested in these topics!
I’m hiring a Student Researcher at @GoogleDeepMind.
I am looking for PhD students working on agents, open-endedness, self-improvement or scientific discovery.
📍 Location: London
🗓️ Duration: 24 weeks, 100%
🚀 Start date: June or July 2027
Apply now using the links below👇
Borja G. León retweeted
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents, one shared Minecraft world, one goal: defeat the Ender Dragon. 27 hours and 2,783 self-written programs later, the dragon fell.
Borja G. León retweeted
We are again recruiting @bold_lab_ai - please share the love 🙏. We are looking for:
1) Postdocs (my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…) -- deadline 9th of Oct at noon
2) research assistants (my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…) -- deadline 9th of Oct at noon
3) Strategic Partnership Project Manager (my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…) -- deadline 14th of Oct at noon
Borja G. León retweeted
TL;DR: This is one of the most important and exciting opportunities in AI on the planet - please read on.
The British Open-ended Learning & Discovery Lab is creating the perfect place for paradigm breaking AI research in the name of open-source and open-science. We have agency, we funding, we have unprecedented amounts of compute*, but WE NEED YOU!
..and we have created the dream job for you: The BOLD Fellow. This job combines a fast-moving, high agency, collaborative environment with full academic freedom and a salary that pays the bills.
Apply by noon UK time on the 15th of September for this once in a lifetime opportunity to shape the history of our field and of our planet:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
*by academic standards
Borja G. León retweeted
Two weeks in, and we are already building British AI leverage, chip by chip 🇬🇧
Borja G. León retweeted
If you want to join us on the BOLD adventure, we are hiring (admin positions for now, but more is coming)! Check this out!
Borja G. León retweeted
Come help us shape the future of AI research at BOLD!
Borja G. León retweeted
🚨 2 major new AI labs in the UK 🚨
3 months ago, we launched a £40m call for a fundamental AI lab in the UK.
Given the exceptional bids we received, we have doubled down: 2 new AI labs, £60m seed funding.
▪️@BOLD_LAB_AI: led by @j_foerst, with an exceptional team of @CULLYAntoine, @shimon8282, @tonizza82, Ani Calinescu & @_rockt
▪️SOFAIR: led by Prof David Barber, with a world-leading team of Mirella Lapata, @yaringal and @LourdesAgapito
The best of UK academia, government and industry, together, to make fundamental advances in AI 🚀
researchprofessionalnews.com…
Borja G. León retweeted
Incredibly proud to be a co-director of @bold_lab_ai 🚀
Five outstanding labs, from three world-leading institutions, one shared mission — with the resources to deliver on it.
Let's build something in the UK that the entire world can benefit from. 👉 bold-lab.ai
Hello world :)
We are BOLD — the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab!
BOLD is a new academic research lab fully focussed on paradigm breaking discoveries in fundamental AI. We work towards more efficient & open AI that is built around human needs and capabilities.
To pursue these breakthroughs, we pioneer new modes of collaboration in academia that are more focussed, resourced, agile, and collaborative. Rather than fragmenting resources, today we are sunsetting 5 of the UKs leading AI labs to join forces under our joined scientific vision.
Our vision is centered around three pillars:
⚡ Beyond backpropagation – questioning the foundations of the field.
🤝 Human-centric learning & discovery – treating humans as core to our algorithms
🤖 Embodied learning – fast learning and adapting methods that deal with the messy real world
BOLD is backed by @UKRI_News and @EPSRC with £30M – and this is just the beginning. We are urgently looking for partners and sponsors to 10x this.
👉 ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06-22-oxf…
👉 bold-lab.ai
@j_foerst, @CULLYAntoine, @tonizza82, @shimon8282, @tonizza82, Ani Calinescu & @_rockt
Borja G. León retweeted
Upcoming ICARL seminar! 🚨🤖
We are excited to continue our series with @rybolos (@Meta ) who will be talking about Advancing Scientific Research with AI Research Agents.
🗓️This Wednesday, 25/03 at 5 pm
📍Huxley Building, Imperial College London
@ICComputing
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/imperial-co…
Hybrid seminar, with a caloric-rewarded in-person networking session with the sepaker and organisers after the talk. As usual, also open to non-Imperial attendees.
In colaboration with @ICDoCSoc
Sponsored by
@iconicgamesio
Borja G. León retweeted
ICARL seminar next Wednesday! 🤖
We are please to have @zfountas Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader at @Huawei presenting Episodic Memory, Consolidation, and Synergistic Processing: Convergent Principles in Biological and Scalable Artificial Intelligence
🗓️Wed, Feb 25, 5pm
📍Huxley Building, Imperial College London, room 144
@ICComputing
This is a Hybrid seminar co-hosted with
@ICDoCSoc and sponsored by @iconicgamesio with a caloric-rewarded in-person networking session as usual.
This event is also open to non-Imperial attendees!
Register here:
eventbrite.com/e/imperial-co…
Borja G. León retweeted
I played with @iconicgamesio Oversight Bureau demo. Really exciting startup in the GenAI for games space!
We're looking for Research Scientists and Engineers to join the AI team at @iconicgamesio in London. n London. We have diverse positions including: Model Optimization/Efficient Inference, Open-Endedness/Reinforcement Learning, and Generative Vision & Multimodal Foundational Models.
Apply here: ats.rippling.com/en-GB/iconi…
Learn more about Iconic: iconicgames.io/
We're a small, growing team with high ownership, crafting the minds that inhabit and shape new worlds for interactive entertainment. If you're into games, blueprinting consciousness, or simply building personas that transmit and evoke feelings and emotions beyond what any chatbot assistant could ever do, this is your place.
These openings are also suitable for final-year PhD students with experience in the relevant field. Any questions, my DMs are open.
Borja G. León retweeted
@iconicgamesio is really pushing the boundaries of what is possible with AI in games, and they are hiring!
We're looking for Research Scientists and Engineers to join the AI team at @iconicgamesio in London. n London. We have diverse positions including: Model Optimization/Efficient Inference, Open-Endedness/Reinforcement Learning, and Generative Vision & Multimodal Foundational Models.
Apply here: ats.rippling.com/en-GB/iconi…
Learn more about Iconic: iconicgames.io/
We're a small, growing team with high ownership, crafting the minds that inhabit and shape new worlds for interactive entertainment. If you're into games, blueprinting consciousness, or simply building personas that transmit and evoke feelings and emotions beyond what any chatbot assistant could ever do, this is your place.
These openings are also suitable for final-year PhD students with experience in the relevant field. Any questions, my DMs are open.
Borja G. León retweeted
An incredible PhD opportunity! 🚀
Working with @robertarail, @_rockt, and @borruell is an absolute dream. If you are applying this cycle, put this at the top of your list!
📢 New PhD Position 📢
We (@_rockt, @borruell, and I) are looking for a PhD student to work at the intersection of open-endedness and game design. The student will be part of the @UCL_DARK lab and funded by @iconicgamesio and UCL.
See this doc for a more detailed description of the research direction and candidate expectations:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
To apply, please complete this form by January 15:
docs.google.com/forms/d/16JG…
Borja G. León retweeted
Great opportunity to do a PhD on Open-Ended Narrative Generation with @robertarail, @borruell, and myself in collaboration between @UCL_DARK and @iconicgamesio!
📢 New PhD Position 📢
We (@_rockt, @borruell, and I) are looking for a PhD student to work at the intersection of open-endedness and game design. The student will be part of the @UCL_DARK lab and funded by @iconicgamesio and UCL.
See this doc for a more detailed description of the research direction and candidate expectations:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
To apply, please complete this form by January 15:
docs.google.com/forms/d/16JG…
Borja G. León retweeted
Apply to do research with me on emergence of agency/planning in LLMs, out-of-context reasoning, understanding generalization from data, or propose your own direction!
Very excited to be mentoring this spring 💫
Applications are open for the CBAI Spring Research Fellowship in AI Safety!
Collaborate with established researchers to kickstart your career in AI alignment and governance research.
We provide mentorship, stipend, housing in Cambridge, 24/7 office access in Harvard Square, generous APIs & compute, and speaker events with leading researchers.
Borja G. León retweeted
Fantastic to see @bureaugame featured by @gameranx in their latest video. #SteamNextFest 🙌🏻
youtu.be/-ZgO_-rPzx0?si=6svi…
Borja G. León retweeted
We’re hiring PhD students🎓✨ Work with @AurelienLucchi & me on the foundations of reasoning in LLMs — from algorithms & ARC challenge to RL and fine-tuning! 👇
@ilijabogunovic and I are looking for two PhD candidates in the field of reasoning in machine learning. Apply here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stelle…
Borja G. León retweeted
Come join us! @FLAIR_Ox has a long history of hosting visiting students and we are now trialling a slightly more formal process for a six months internship early 2026. The successful students will become fully-fledged members of FLAIR working on cutting edge ML in a wonderfully supportive environment featuring some of the smartest and nicest people I have ever had the chance to work with 🫶
🚨🚨Introducing the FLAIR internship program!🚨🚨
We are looking for two talented students to join us for an internship working in FLAIR for 6 months (5th January to 4th July 2026)!
For details and eligibility criteria, please check: foersterlab.com/internship/
Borja G. León retweeted
Check out The Oversight Bureau from Iconic Interactive enhanced with NVIDIA ACE!
Learn More: nvda.ws/4oIpRfr