Borja G. Leon
@borruell
AI Research Lead, Principal Scientist at @iconicgamesio | Lead @ic_arl | prev @SonyAI_global @Meta @imperialcollege
Thrilled that we have been recognized as a Top 100 AI startup! So proud of our team. ✨
We have been named among the top 100 Al startups globally by @CBinsights, alongside @Figure_robot, @wayve_ai and @dexoryHQ! With only a handful of gaming companies listed, we are proud to be defining a new category of interactive worlds and experiences cbinsights.com/research/repor…
At @iconicgamesio we are proud sponsors of the RL and Videogames workshop. Looking forward to attending soon!
Thank you to our sponsors @iconicgamesio for their kind support to make this workshop happen! Follow them at iconicgames.io and stay tuned for their first game dropping soon! 🎮🕹️
Looking forward to network at #ICLR2025! I'm interested in AI agents and dynamic worlds that carry a narrative while adapting to the user and honoring the designer's intent. Ping me also to chat about open-endedness, embodied agents, continual learning or AI in games in general!
Papers with Code will be missed, thank you guys for your great contribution to the community!
🌅 The sun has set on Papers with Code. @rbstojnic and I started this project 7 years ago: Transformers were still nascent, there were no GPTs, and model releases weren’t major news stories. Papers with Code quickly grew to be a major index of information in ML. It was the…
My lab is Hiring! I am looking for a research engineer (pre doc) or a postdoc with strong skills in computer vision and state estimation to join our TRUSTLINE project. More info: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…
Great opportunity here!
I’m building a new team at @GoogleDeepMind to work on Open-Ended Discovery! We’re looking for strong Research Scientists and Research Engineers to help us push the frontier of autonomously discovering novel artifacts such as new knowledge, capabilities, or algorithms, in an…
Congratulations!
For the fifth consecutive year, we are coming back from from @GeccoConf with a Best Paper Award!!!🥇 congratulations to my former PhD student @MFlageat and our great collaborators Johann Huber, Francois Helenon, and @doncieux 🎉🦎
Upcoming seminar!🤖⏰🧬 @Alberto_Begue_ (Research Engineer at @instadeepai) will introduce recent key developments and highlights how industrial esearch labs are leveraing foundattional models in biology. 🗓️July 9th, 5 pm 📍room 130 Huxley Building, Imperial College London…
Just got back from the @GameAISchool 2025 in Malmö! 🎮 A week packed with brilliant lectures, industry talks, and great conversations. Big thanks to @togelius, @yannakakis for organising. Feeling even more excited for what we’re building at @iconicgamesio!
Get popcorn
🚨 JUST IN. Anthropic gave Claude $1000 to run a shop. It lost money every single day. But that's not the crazy part. It rejected 566% profit margins and gave away inventory while claiming to wear business clothes. If you think AI will replace workers, you need to see this:
📢 New paper introducing LLM-First Search (LFS) — a new self-guided search method with LLMs 🤖 🧠 🚀. Excellent work led by @naitherr with @_rockt from @UCL_DARK. LFS can more effectively explore the solution space of challenging reasoning problems, leading to better performance…
Excited to introduce LLM-First Search (LFS) - a new paradigm where the language model takes the lead in reasoning and search! LFS is a self-directed search method that empowers LLMs to guide the exploration process themselves, without relying on predefined heuristics or fixed…
Best plan for Wednesday next week!
Upcoming seminar!🤖🚨 🗓️18th of June 17:00 @AlbertQJiang (AI Scientist at @MistralAI ) will share his experiences creating reasoning models with reinforcement learning from the perspective of an industry lab. 📍Huxley Building, Imperial College London @ICComputing Hybrid…
Interested by an internship Ubisoft Bordeaux (La Forge) on LLMs/VLMs agents and program synthesis in video games, with collaboration with my team at Inria? Check info and apply here 👇
Happening today!
🚨 Upcoming seminar! Our next session features Mark Sagar, a double Academy Award winner in Scientific and Engineering. Mark is known from his participation in blockbusters such as Avatar, King Kong, and Spiderman 2. His work is set in the intersection of AI, Interactive Human…
This is happening in one week! registration link in the cited post
🚨 Upcoming seminar! Our next session features Mark Sagar, a double Academy Award winner in Scientific and Engineering. Mark is known from his participation in blockbusters such as Avatar, King Kong, and Spiderman 2. His work is set in the intersection of AI, Interactive Human…
The variety of top speakers and diverse topics in our seminars is always a blast, but having a double-Oscar winning scientist feels extra special! We need to do in-person only to show more juicy stuff from the movies 😱 I know some of our regular audience will need to travel…
🚨 Upcoming seminar! Our next session features Mark Sagar, a double Academy Award winner in Scientific and Engineering. Mark is known from his participation in blockbusters such as Avatar, King Kong, and Spiderman 2. His work is set in the intersection of AI, Interactive Human…
Indeed at @iconicgamesio we'll be making noise in the generative AI + games space soon. Stay tuned!
My personal take: I'd continue learning game dev but pay close attention to what's happening in the generative AI space. Apart from our work, follow companies like @CSM_ai @iconicgamesio @odysseyml to name just a few. Learn to get proficient with AI tools, for example, test game…
I’ll be giving a talk at 2:20pm today at the @ICBINBWorkshop #ICLR2025 titled “Automating Scientific Discovery: How Far Are We?”. Come by if you are interested in the topic!
🔬 Speaker spotlight for I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better #ICLR2025! Roberta Raileanu (Meta) will talk about using LLMs to automate scientific discovery—how far are we really? She’ll introduce MLGym & show why real-world AI research is still far from solved. 🗓️ April 28
Several people from the AIRL lab and I are at ICLR'25 this week. Come to see our latest work and have a chat. See below for the full program!
Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠 An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & @ALifeConf communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-alife |Deadline: May 4th