Very excited to launch BOLD 🚀
BOLD is a national shot at ambitious bluesky fundamental AI research in an academic setting, fully committed to open-source and open-science. BOLD's mission are research bets that would reshuffle the deck in AI if true. It will also be a launchpad for fast-tracking the British and European tech scene. Oh - and @FLAIR_Ox is no more.
Hello world :) We are BOLD — the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab!
BOLD is a new academic research lab fully focussed on paradigm breaking discoveries in fundamental AI. We work towards more efficient & open AI that is built around human needs and capabilities.
To pursue these breakthroughs, we pioneer new modes of collaboration in academia that are more focussed, resourced, agile, and collaborative. Rather than fragmenting resources, today we are sunsetting 5 of the UKs leading AI labs to join forces under our joined scientific vision.
Our vision is centered around three pillars: ⚡ Beyond backpropagation – questioning the foundations of the field. 🤝 Human-centric learning & discovery – treating humans as core to our algorithms 🤖 Embodied learning – fast learning and adapting methods that deal with the messy real world
BOLD is backed by @UKRI_News with £30M – and this is just the beginning. We are urgently looking for partners and sponsors to 10x this.
👉 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06-22-oxford-to-host-new-uk-ai-research-lab
👉 http://bold-lab.ai
@j_foerst, @CULLYAntoine, @tonizza82, @shimon8282, @tonizza82, Ani Calinescu & @_rockt
