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Very excited and honoured to launch BOLD!
3 universities, 6 co-leaders, outstanding researchers, all together with one goal: building a national AI Research Lab breaking discoveries in fundamental AI, toward open-ended learning, & open-source AI.
Stay tuned!
3 universities, 6 co-leaders, outstanding researchers, all together with one goal: building a national AI Research Lab breaking discoveries in fundamental AI, toward open-ended learning, & open-source AI.
Stay tuned!
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 ghs, 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/2026-06-2…
👉 bold-lab.ai
@j_foerst, @CULLYAntoine, @tonizza82, @shimon8282, @tonizza82, Ani Calinescu & @_rockt
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We @bold_lab_ai are hiring a large cohort of home and overseas students for Fall 2027 entry. If you’re excited about discovering the next paradigm of open-source AI and want to work on ambitious, exploratory, but scalable ML, please apply. More application details and exact timeline coming soon, in the meantime please register your interest here bold-lab.ai/opportunities/ 🦋🦋🦋
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BOLD is recruiting -- we are looking for a Senior HPC Systems Administrator: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
Deadline is this Friday (16th October) at noon UK time.
Come help us build @bold_lab_ai and re-invent academia 🦋🚀
Deadline is this Friday (16th October) at noon UK time.
Come help us build @bold_lab_ai and re-invent academia 🦋🚀
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Exciting support from NVidia for @bold_lab_ai and the UK AI ecosystem overall. We have come a long way in making academic AI research operate at the scale and ambition needed to ensure that AI serves all. And we are also just getting started. 🦋
nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-co…
nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-co…
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I recently had a had an hour long conversation with @SAIRfoundation - if you are curious about AI Beyond Scaling, @bold_lab_ai , the journey here, and were we are headed this is for you!
youtube.com/watch?v=6BZs0b…
PS:
If you'd like to join this journey, the applications for the first ever batch of BOLD Fellows will close at noon UK Time today: jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR362/bol…
youtube.com/watch?v=6BZs0b…
PS:
If you'd like to join this journey, the applications for the first ever batch of BOLD Fellows will close at noon UK Time today: jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR362/bol…
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We recently hosted our first @bold_lab_ai Festival in Oxford @UniofOxford, brining together 350 researchers, innovators, industry partners, VCs and policymakers. Our annual BOLD Festivals are core to our efforts of strengthening the open-source AI ecosystem in the UK and in Ob2g05Ryr
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Unique opportunity to build great science in academic environment. If you are an early and mid career AI researchers willing to reshape academic AI and work towards long term breakthroughs within a fantastic group of peers, JOIN US!
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 fdented 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
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👊 Some BOLD representation at @RL_Conference this week! Make sure to chat to our BOLDies about their work if you're attending!
🧠 Preventing Learning Stagnation in PPO by Scaling to 1 Million Parallel Environments, led by @mcbeukman
🌐 Fully Offline Reinforcement Learning, led by Mattie Fellows and @ClarisseWibault
☄️ Hierarchical Behaviour Spaces, led by @mitrma
❓ When Do We Need LLMs? A Diagnostic for Language-Driven Bandits, led by @uljadb99
🧠 Preventing Learning Stagnation in PPO by Scaling to 1 Million Parallel Environments, led by @mcbeukman
🌐 Fully Offline Reinforcement Learning, led by Mattie Fellows and @ClarisseWibault
☄️ Hierarchical Behaviour Spaces, led by @mitrma
❓ When Do We Need LLMs? A Diagnostic for Language-Driven Bandits, led by @uljadb99
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We're pleased to announce funding of two PhD students as part of the UK Government-backed investment in new AI research labs led by @UniofOxford, @imperialcollege & @ucl. We’re proud to support the next generation of AI researchers shaping the future of interactive entertainment
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Great opportunity to help us building BOLD!!
BOLD is hiring 🚀
Right now we are looking for two brilliant individuals to help us build the machine that invents the future. If you are up for a challenge and thrive in a fast moving, collaborative, mission driven environment, this is for you..!
Links and more info👇
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We hope you’ve enjoyed a sneak peek of work from BOLD and our collaborators at #ICML2026! See below for a full summary of where you can find us this week:
▶️ (Poster) Procedural Generation of Algorithm Discovery Tasks in Machine Learning, Hall A #1803, Tuesday 10:30 - 12:15, led by @AlexDGoldie
▶️ (Poster) h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning, Hall A #2704, led by Alesia Ivanova @sumeetrm
▶️ (Poster) Goal-Conditioned Agents that Learn Everything All at Once, Hall A #310, Tuesday 14:00 - 15:45, led by @mitrma
▶️ (Poster) Rubric Curriculum RL: Exploiting the Generation-Verification Gap in Creative Writing, Hall A #2605, Wednesday 14:30 - 14:15, led by Tejas Krishnan @sumeetrm
▶️ (Poster) Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale, Hall A #3712, Thursday 10:30 - 12:15, led by @bidiptas13 @JuanDuquevan Mattie Fellows
▶️ (Poster) Dreaming in Code for Curriculum Learning in Open-Ended Worlds, Hall A #213, Wednesday 17:00 - 18:45, led by @k_mitsides
▶️ (Poster) Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale, Hall A #3712, Thursday 10:30 - 12:15, led by @bidiptas13 @JuanDuquevan Mattie Fellows
▶️ (Poster) The Decrypto Benchmark for Multi-Agent Reasoning and Theory of Mind, Hall A #3504, Thursday 14:30 - 16:15, led by @_andreilupu
▶️ (Poster) LongCoT: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Chain-of-Thought Reasoning, Hall A #1705, Thursday 14:30 - 16:15, led by @sumeetrm @DanielNichols10 @CharlieLondon02 Peggy Li Fabio Pizzati
▶️ (Talk) Superhuman Scientific Discovery, RLxF Worskhop, Friday 15:30 - 16:00, by @robertarail
▶️ (Panel) RLxF Worskhop, Friday 16:00 - 17:00, by @robertarail
▶️ (Workshop) Amortising Bayesian Experimental Design for Sequential Information Gathering in LLMs, FoGen Workshop, Friday, led by @jakobhartmann99 James Harvey Jhonathan Navott
▶️ (Workshop) Elicitation Format Drives Divergent LLM Geopolitical Forecasts, AI Forecasting Workshop, Saturday, led by @hariharansuhas @michalbravansky
▶️ (Workshop) EGGROLL-IPO: Pluralistic Alignment via Decentralised Post-Training with Population Preferences, Pluralistic Alignment Workshop, Saturday, led by @alfie_lamerton
▶️ (Workshop Spotlight) Abstraction for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning, DEMO Workshop, Saturday, led by @ClarisseWibault
▶️ (Poster) Procedural Generation of Algorithm Discovery Tasks in Machine Learning, Hall A #1803, Tuesday 10:30 - 12:15, led by @AlexDGoldie
▶️ (Poster) h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning, Hall A #2704, led by Alesia Ivanova @sumeetrm
▶️ (Poster) Goal-Conditioned Agents that Learn Everything All at Once, Hall A #310, Tuesday 14:00 - 15:45, led by @mitrma
▶️ (Poster) Rubric Curriculum RL: Exploiting the Generation-Verification Gap in Creative Writing, Hall A #2605, Wednesday 14:30 - 14:15, led by Tejas Krishnan @sumeetrm
▶️ (Poster) Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale, Hall A #3712, Thursday 10:30 - 12:15, led by @bidiptas13 @JuanDuquevan Mattie Fellows
▶️ (Poster) Dreaming in Code for Curriculum Learning in Open-Ended Worlds, Hall A #213, Wednesday 17:00 - 18:45, led by @k_mitsides
▶️ (Poster) Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale, Hall A #3712, Thursday 10:30 - 12:15, led by @bidiptas13 @JuanDuquevan Mattie Fellows
▶️ (Poster) The Decrypto Benchmark for Multi-Agent Reasoning and Theory of Mind, Hall A #3504, Thursday 14:30 - 16:15, led by @_andreilupu
▶️ (Poster) LongCoT: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Chain-of-Thought Reasoning, Hall A #1705, Thursday 14:30 - 16:15, led by @sumeetrm @DanielNichols10 @CharlieLondon02 Peggy Li Fabio Pizzati
▶️ (Talk) Superhuman Scientific Discovery, RLxF Worskhop, Friday 15:30 - 16:00, by @robertarail
▶️ (Panel) RLxF Worskhop, Friday 16:00 - 17:00, by @robertarail
▶️ (Workshop) Amortising Bayesian Experimental Design for Sequential Information Gathering in LLMs, FoGen Workshop, Friday, led by @jakobhartmann99 James Harvey Jhonathan Navott
▶️ (Workshop) Elicitation Format Drives Divergent LLM Geopolitical Forecasts, AI Forecasting Workshop, Saturday, led by @hariharansuhas @michalbravansky
▶️ (Workshop) EGGROLL-IPO: Pluralistic Alignment via Decentralised Post-Training with Population Preferences, Pluralistic Alignment Workshop, Saturday, led by @alfie_lamerton
▶️ (Workshop Spotlight) Abstraction for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning, DEMO Workshop, Saturday, led by @ClarisseWibault
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🚀 Three (yes, three!) papers on long-horizon reasoning and RL for non-verifiable domains from @sumeetrm, @CharlieLondon02, and collaborators at ICML 2026. h1 (Spotlight) trains models to reason over longer horizons using curriculum RL over composed short-horizon data. This lize to harder tasks and improves performance even at high pass@k.
LongCoT isolates and benchmarks long-horizon CoT capabilities, pushing models to reason well over tens and hundreds of thousands of tokens in an output. Rubric Curriculum RL uses the generation-verification gap in non-verifiable domains to allow models to self-improve on tasks like creative writing and health advicing.
h1: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07312
LongCoT: arxiv.org/abs/2604.14140
RcRL: openreview.net/pdf?id=LShWfvQ…
LongCoT isolates and benchmarks long-horizon CoT capabilities, pushing models to reason well over tens and hundreds of thousands of tokens in an output. Rubric Curriculum RL uses the generation-verification gap in non-verifiable domains to allow models to self-improve on tasks like creative writing and health advicing.
h1: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07312
LongCoT: arxiv.org/abs/2604.14140
RcRL: openreview.net/pdf?id=LShWfvQ…
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LASP's era is coming to an end, but only because of a new and incredibly exciting opportunity🚀
Strongly believing 1+1=3, we are merging @UCL_LASP, @FLAIR_Ox, @whi_rl, @UCL_DARK and AIRL in favour of BOLD — the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab (@bold_lab_ai)
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Strongly believing 1+1=3, we are merging @UCL_LASP, @FLAIR_Ox, @whi_rl, @UCL_DARK and AIRL in favour of BOLD — the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab (@bold_lab_ai)
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Great things are coming...
Congratulations team!!
Congratulations team!!
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 ghs, 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/2026-06-2…
👉 bold-lab.ai
@j_foerst, @CULLYAntoine, @tonizza82, @shimon8282, @tonizza82, Ani Calinescu & @_rockt
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New PhD opportunity at @UCL_LASP to explore if AI could understand the why beyond global events!
Join us to build smarter, more resilient systems for our future.
In collaboration with Francesca Boem & @mircomusolesi linkedin.com/posts/lauraton…
Join us to build smarter, more resilient systems for our future.
In collaboration with Francesca Boem & @mircomusolesi linkedin.com/posts/lauraton…
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The portal is open: Our #ELLISPhD Program is now accepting applications! Apply by November 15 to work with leading #AI labs across Europe and choose your advisors among 200 top #machinelearning researchers!
#JoinELLISforEurope #PhD #PhDProgram #ML ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd…
#JoinELLISforEurope #PhD #PhDProgram #ML ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd…
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hot take - it's not all about language. Beyond chatbots, AI has a profound ability to model more complex - and mysterious - systems, from the human body and global weather to Earth in its entirety.
I shared my views on the @TEDAIVienna stage: ted.com/talks/raia_had…
I shared my views on the @TEDAIVienna stage: ted.com/talks/raia_had…
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@johanferret @_rockt @egrefen @PaglieriDavide @scowardai @tonizza82 Check out our paper at arxiv.org/abs/2409.12798
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Exciting new release: NAVIX, a MiniGrid re-implementation in #JAX for lightning-fast RL training🚀
Check it out
github.com/epignatelli/na…
arxiv.org/pdf/2407.19396
Check it out
github.com/epignatelli/na…
arxiv.org/pdf/2407.19396
📢 ⚡️Glad to finally release #NAVIX: we re-implemented MiniGrid in #JAX for lightning-fast RL training🚀
You can now train more than 2048 #PPO agents on #MiniGrid environments in less than *2* minutes! ⚡️⚡️
Say goodbye to long and tedious hparams search! 👋👋
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📢Really excited to present our work on #CreditAssignment with #LanguageModels as a #spotlight at the #ICML@London meetup.
📅Happening tomorrow, Fri, 12th Jul, 3pm BST,
📍UCL Cruciform Building, LT1
Come say hi! 👋
📅Happening tomorrow, Fri, 12th Jul, 3pm BST,
📍UCL Cruciform Building, LT1
Come say hi! 👋
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