Very excited and honoured to launch BOLD!
3 universities, 6 co-leaders, outstanding researchers, all together with one goal: building a national AI Research Lab breaking discoveries in fundamental AI, toward open-ended learning, & open-source AI.
Stay tuned!
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 and @EPSRC 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
