Max Bartolo

Researcher @GoogleDeepMind & co-chair @DynabenchAI @MLCommons. Previously @Cohere, @MetaAI/FAIR & @BloomsburyAI.

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

@nickfrosst Congrats, looks like a great model and love that it's open source!

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

@_rockt @Recursive_SI Congrats Tim and team!

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

@SebJohnsonUK @UKSovereignAI Now all it needs is an option exercise tax deferral policy like Canada's to allow startup employees to actually benefit from the value they create in the UK and supercharge the innovation flywheel

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

Check out our @iclr_conf paper with @henryconklin and co-authors bridging the gap between LLM training theory and practice

[Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant @ICLR🇧🇷 @seraphinagt]

New @iclr_conf paper: "Learning is Forgetting: LLM Training As Lossy Compression" with @henryconklin Tom Hosking @yichern_tan Julian Gold, Jonathan Cohen, @cocosci_lab @max_nlp. Check out 🧵, blog, arxiv: https://t.co/la4xJHf857, https://t.co/R8GIINOHLc (entropy vid from blog)

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

@PeterHndrsn cc @magikarp_tokens

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

@nathanbenaich @robertarail @raais @GoogleDeepMind Roberta is awesome! 🤩

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

Londonmaxxing 🇬🇧

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

London has incredible talent & entrepreneurial spirit. Thrilled to deepen @GoogleDeepMind’s roots here with our spectacular new building Platform 37 - a nod to AlphaGo’s legendary Move 37. It’s a tribute to Science & AI, and an inspirational space for our next big breakthroughs!

[koray kavukcuoglu @koraykv]

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is available now! It takes an unbelievable amount of complex engineering to make AI feel instantaneous, enabling exciting new frontiers for experimentation!

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

@jeankaddour Data order maybe where baseline is random shuffle and non-baseline is some form of curriculum?

[koray kavukcuoglu @koraykv]

Today we’re releasing a preview of Gemini 3.1 Pro and making it available to our users and developers.

Very excited to bring the upgraded core we used in Deep Think to everyone.

Learn more about Gemini 3.1 Pro: https://t.co/oV9U4HzQuK

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

@KanishkaNarayan The tax system that makes it too expensive for tech employees to exercise their own hard-earned equity, handing millions back to foreign companies? That tax system?

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

Yet another massively insightful research contribution by @LisaAlazraki 🤩

[Lisa Alazraki @LisaAlazraki]

📣 New paper from my Meta Superintelligence Labs internship: Scaling Small Agents Through Strategy Auctions.

Small language models are cheap but don’t scale to long-horizon tasks. Strategy auctions help them punch above their weight. 🚀

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[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

Future intelligence will be tailored to individuals not average human feedback. It will be personal, adapt continuously online, and shaped by interaction and experience. Excited to see Sara and Sudip build!

[Sara Hooker @sarahookr]

Beginnings are very special. Today is an important day for @adaptionlabs.

Today a handful of one-size-fits-all-models are optimized for the average use case.

Averages erase the exceptional.

Everything intelligent adapts. So should AI.

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

@nickfrosst @CoreWeave @cohere if the typo was intended, it's brilliant. if not, it's subliminally brilliant

[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.

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

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[Oriol Vinyals @OriolVinyalsML]

Classic LLM dilemma: smart vs fast. The new reality with Gemini 3 Flash: Why not both?

That trade-off has never felt smaller. Congrats to the team! ⚡️

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

Pass by poster 1909 in Hall E if you're interested in learning more about RL for Reverse Engineering Human Preferences from @LisaAlazraki @yichern_tan @jaa_campos @maximilianmozes @MarekRei #NeurIPS2025

[Cohere Labs @Cohere_Labs]

Cohere Labs x NeurIPS 2025: “Reverse Engineering Human Preferences with Reinforcement Learning"

This work shows that RL-tuned preambles can stealthily boost LLM-as-a-judge scores, revealing a subtle but powerful evaluation vulnerability.

Congrats to authors @LisaAlazraki, @yichern_tan, @jaa_campos, @maximilianmozes, @MarekRei, @max_nlp

📜 https://t.co/0JAFt5HU6F

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

Just landed in sunny San Diego ✈️🇺🇲🌞 for #NeurIPS2025. Ping me if you'd like to chat and drop by our spotlight poster tomorrow (https://t.co/GTO4AmhMGk) if you want to see evidence of LLMs using unintelligible preambles and more exciting findings 🤩

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

A brief 72hrs in beautiful Montreal 🇨🇦, but absolutely worth it. Energising discussions and the chance to debate ideas with people whose work has shaped the field. Thanks for the invite and for hosting a standout workshop @sivareddyg @Yoshua_Bengio @AaronCourville 🙏

[IVADO @IVADO_Qc]

Many thanks to the OC @sivareddyg Dawn Song @Yoshua_Bengio @alsuhr @chrisjpal @ysu_nlp @hllo_wrld and to the speakers @jacobandreas @max_nlp Yonathan Belinkov @AaronCourville @nouhadziri @gauthier_gidel @seraphinagt @PeterHndrsn Helen Nissenbaum @vinodkpg @jieyuzhao11