I’m hiring a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind. This research role centers on topics of open-ended self-improvement and discovery with LLM agents. 📍 Location: London 🗓️ Duration: 6 months, 100% 🚀 Start date: June or July 2026 Apply now using the links below 👇

Hello all! 👋 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨 Code World Models for General Game-Playing. ♟️🎲 ♣️♥️♠️♦️ I am pleased to announce our new paper, which provides an extremely sample-efficient way to create an agent that can perform well in multi-agent, partially-observed, symbolic environments! 🧵 1/N

Can AI agents adapt zero-shot, to complex multi-step language instructions in open-ended environments? We present MaestroMotif, a method for skill design that produces highly capable and steerable hierarchical agents. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08542 Code: github.com/mklissa/maestromotif

Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.

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Your LLM shall not pass! 🧙‍♂️ ... unless it's really good in reasoning and games! Check out this new amazing benchmark BALROG 👾 from @dpaglieri.bsky.social and team 👇

Davide Paglieri@dpaglieri.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tired of saturated benchmarks? Want scope for a significant leap in capabilities? 🔥 Introducing BALROG: a Benchmark for Agentic LLM and VLM Reasoning On Games! BALROG is a challenging benchmark for LLM agentic capabilities, designed to stay relevant for years to come. 1/🧵

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How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this: Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢 🧵⬇️

Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack. go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD

I am happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday! 🎓 This journey has been nothing short of extraordinary, and I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has been a part of it. 🪇

Tim Rocktäschel@handle.invalid · 2y ago

Proud to announce that Dr @samvelyan.com defended his PhD thesis titled "Robust Agents in Open-Ended Worlds" yesterday 🥳. Massive thanks to @togelius.bsky.social and Ilija Bogunovic for examining! As is customary, Mikayel received a personal mortarboard from UCL DARK.

Lets get the multi-agent learning community started up here: go.bsky.app/9gsefkW