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! 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:

At Nof1 we believe the next breakthrough in AI after reasoning is adaptation If reasoning is the ability to detect patterns and leverage them, adaptation is anticipating how those patterns will change This is a crucial capability for real world AI, and current LLMs struggle with it. We've run thousands of live market experiments and no amount of context, prompting, or harness engineering has worked. So, we've been pushing our research deeper down the stack In this paper, we trained models that can better adapt in dynamic environments like markets. They learn to value an action by the futures it opens up, not just its immediate payoff It's an early step, but we're building towards forever learners that are default forward-looking, rather than static and backward looking

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👇

Step into the map with the Street View grounding feature in Project Genie from @GoogleDeepmind and @GoogleLabs. Announced at I/O, this research prototype uses locations from @GoogleMaps Street View as a foundation, letting you generate and explore interactive, 360-degree virtual environments from just a text prompt or real-world starting place. Cool, right? But… How does it actually work? 🤔 As an experimental tool, Project Genie tackles the "blank space" problem (showing both what’s in front of the camera and behind it) by utilizing Street View data to realistically generate a 360-degree view of the location you selected as the starting point for your world to generate from. Worlds generated by Genie are far more dynamic and rich because they’re created frame-by-frame based on the world description and user actions. By predicting each subsequent frame, Genie is able to simulate what it looks like to swim across an ocean, or hike to the top of a peak, marking a massive shift in interactive media and simulation pipelines. What real-world place would you want to step into and explore?

Amazing to see the arc from Genie being an early research idea and prototype to a major Google product to a Cannes Gran Prix no less! Working in AI is full of surprises. Almost like living in a dream. Congrats to the entire Genie team!

It has been an absolute privilege and pleasure to build up @UCL_DARK with @egrefen, @robertarail and @jparkerholder over the past eight years. Yesterday, the UK government announced not just one but two national academic fundamental AI research labs. I am extremely excited to announce that @UCL_DARK will be sunsetted and merge with @FLAIR_Ox, @whi_rl, @UCL_LASP and AIRL, to form the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery (BOLD) Lab — @BOLD_Lab_AI. This is a huge moment for academic AI research in the UK. Backed with £30m by @UKRI_News and @EPSRC, it provides a unique opportunity to attract leading international academic talent to the UK, and equip them with the computational resources to do groundbreaking exploratory AI research (more on the computational resources soon). It also creates a mentorship network of academics, industry leaders and entrepreneurs to educate young talent on how to translate fundamental AI research into real world impact. I want to thank all the students who made @UCL_DARK successful, in particular our PhD alumni @MinqiJiang, @_samvelyan, @zhengyaojiang, @_robertkirk, @akbirkhan, @LauraRuis, @YingchenX, @PaglieriDavide, and the work of our honorary faculty @egrefen, @robertarail and @jparkerholder who were generously contributing to mentorship and research in their free time.

We are excited to announce that we will sunset @UCL_DARK and merge into the British Open-Ended Learning & Discovery (BOLD) Lab. It's a unique opportunity to come together as a joint fundamental AI research group. This account will be inactive going forward. Follow @bold_lab_ai 🦋

Huge congratulations to the Project Genie team on taking home the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for AI Craft! 🎉 Thank you @Cannes_Lions for recognizing how Genie pushes beyond conventional creative limitations to achieve outcomes unattainable without frontier AI… Another unexpected consequence of scaling world models :) Try it yourself here:

Genie 3 feels like a watershed moment for world models 🌐: we can now generate multi-minute, real-time interactive simulations of any imaginable world. This could be the key missing piece for embodied AGI… and it can also create beautiful beaches with my dog, playable real time