Borja G. León

Chief Scientist at @iconicgamesio | Lead @ic_arl | prev @SonyAI_global @Meta @imperialcollege

[Borja G. León @borruell]

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: https://t.co/F1qcDYb9Yz
Learn more about Iconic: https://t.co/jnkttSuggK

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.

[ICARL @ic_arl]

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: https://t.co/dTjVGaJ5wY

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 @borruell]

@risi1979 Ohh your are going to enjoy this one, ping me if you want food recommendations while there!

[Borja G. León @borruell]

@alexUnder_sky Thank you for the pointer Sacha!

[Borja G. León @borruell]

Heading to GDC!

Happy to meet with people wanting to chat about AI in games, and research in general.

Particularly interested in open-endedness, reinforcement learning, digital actors and world models.

See you in SF :)

[Borja G. León @borruell]

@alexUnder_sky @zfountas @ic_arl Yes it was

[Borja G. León @borruell]

@zfountas presenting his insights combining neuroscience, RL and llms at @ic_arl

[ICARL @ic_arl]

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:
https://t.co/PzmdqUVgsn

[Borja G. León @borruell]

Learning about SIMA 2 from @janexwang at @ic_arl!

Excited times for embodied foundational models.

[Tim Rocktäschel @_rockt]

I played with @iconicgamesio Oversight Bureau demo. Really exciting startup in the GenAI for games space!

[Roberta Raileanu @robertarail]

@iconicgamesio is really pushing the boundaries of what is possible with AI in games, and they are hiring!

[Borja G. León @borruell]

Looking forward to learning more insights of SIMA 2 next week!

[ICARL @ic_arl]

ICARL seminar next Wednesday!

@janexwang Senior staff research scientist at
@GoogleDeepMind will be presenting SIMA 2: A Generalist Embodied Agent for Virtual Worlds.

🗓️Feb 4th, 5:30 pm
📍Huxley Building @ICComputing, Imperial College London, room 340

This is an in-person seminar co-hosted with
@ICDoCSoc
This event is also open to non-Imperial attendees! Register here:

https://t.co/jdCMF0Wtny

[Borja G. León @borruell]

@_samvelyan @robertarail @_rockt 🤗

[Mikayel Samvelyan @_samvelyan]

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!

[Tim Rocktäschel @_rockt]

Great opportunity to do a PhD on Open-Ended Narrative Generation with @robertarail, @borruell, and myself in collaboration between @UCL_DARK and @iconicgamesio!

[Borja G. León @borruell]

We are looking for strong PhD candidates in AI to help us unlock a new universe of open-ended experiences in entertainment. This is a unique experience to work closer with the three of us and the wider teams at DARK and Iconic Interactive Research!

[Roberta Raileanu @robertarail]

📢 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:
https://t.co/eYsFKlgCJt

To apply, please complete this form by January 15:
https://t.co/UOGva9iBvJ

[Borja G. León @borruell]

This is so cool!

[Jon Miller Schwartz @JonMSchwartz]

Another awesome robot by Disney. Very bullish on their future theme parks.

[Borja G. León @borruell]

Thrilled by the support as we redefine interactive entertainment 🚀

We'll be soon expanding our AI research team to build a galaxy of interactive, directed open-ended worlds, where every player is at the center of their own epic story. 🌌

[Iconic Interactive @iconicgamesio]

Today, we’re excited to announce that Iconic has raised a $13M Seed round, co-led by @KindredVentures and @northzoneVC , with participation from Google AI Futures Fund, @conviction , Deepwater Asset Management, @sequoia scouts, and a group of exceptional angels.

[Laura Ruis @LauraRuis]

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 💫

[Borja G. León @borruell]

@chrisbarber @rronak_ @QuantumArjun @MichaelElabd @jonsidd @schwarzjn_ I am also hiring at @iconicgamesio for RS and RE for world models, slms, and Embodied FMs for open-ended AI and videogames