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: ats.rippling.com/en-GB/iconi… Learn more about Iconic: iconicgames.io/ 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.

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: eventbrite.com/e/imperial-co… 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

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 :)

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: eventbrite.com/e/imperial-co…

Learning about SIMA 2 from @janexwang at @ic_arl! Excited times for embodied foundational models.

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

This is so cool!

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. 🌌

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 💫

At #NeurIPS2025 this week. DM me if you want to have a coffee. Particularly interested to chat about Open-Endedness, AI and Games, World Models, Agentic and Embodied AI, and Creativity. Will be hiring to expand our research team at @iconicgamesio soon, so do reach out if interested!

Looking forward to this 👀

Fantastic to see @bureaugame featured by @gameranx in their latest video. #SteamNextFest 🙌🏻 youtu.be/-ZgO_-rPzx0?si=6svi…

Sold out @ic_arl seminar with @max_nlp!

We founded Iconic to unlock worlds and experiences we previously could only dream about. Today, we're proud to share our first public demo, now available to play for free. Here is our launch trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=eSY-YSPt… Every AI runs fully on-device. This isn’t just a game, it’s a glimpse into the future of interactive experiences. Play it, explore it, and let us know what you think!

Happening next week!