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Oliver Groth

@omgroth
Stealth Startup; prev: RS @GoogleDeepMind; PhD @oxfordrobots @Oxford_VGG; research @StanfordSVL AI researcher, robot trainer and video game nerd.
London, United Kingdom
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  • @omgroth
    Oliver Groth
    @omgroth
    Sep 1
    One of the 'side-effects' of our approach was that the VLM-orchestrator could be used for one-shot, in-context learning to bootstrap RL post-training with a feasible solution. The latest releases of @SkildAI's S1 and @GeneralistAI's GEN 1.5 show how powerful ICL gets at scale.🚀
    @sukhijabhavy
    Bhavya Sukhija
    @sukhijabhavy
    Sep 1
    Replying to @sukhijabhavy
    When we started this work one year ago, there were no in-context-capable VLAs, yet. Instead VLM-orchestration for semantic exploration was our approach to go the 0->1 step, before RL can take the policy to 100. [3/4]
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  • @omgroth
    Oliver Groth
    @omgroth
    Sep 1
    One of the best perks of my time @GoogleDeepMind was to host exceptional student researchers like @sukhijabhavy. His work on VLM-orchestrated RL for VLA post-training (done in 2025!) was way ahead of the curve and is now finally on arxiv. All details in 🧵👇
    @sukhijabhavy
    Bhavya Sukhija
    @sukhijabhavy
    Sep 1
    New paper: EXIMO 🚀 — Explore, Imitate, Optimize How can we enable sample-efficient learning of new tasks? [1/4] Our idea: leverage the general knowledge of state-of-the-art VLMs to guide exploration toward what actually matters. 👇🧵
  • @omgroth
    Oliver Groth
    @omgroth
    Jul 27
    Today is officially my last day at DeepMind. After five magical years at the frontier of AI research, I have decided to embark on a new adventure in the Robotics space (more on that soon). 1/6
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  • @omgroth
    Oliver Groth
    @omgroth
    Jan 5
    Since my undergrad days, I have been following Boston Dynamics and was awestruck every time they’ve put out a new robot video. Being able to collaborate with them now to advance the frontier of intelligent robots together feels like a dream come true. 🤩
    @GoogleDeepMind
    Google DeepMind
    @GoogleDeepMind
    Jan 5
    Google DeepMind 🤝 @BostonDynamics Our new research partnership will bring together our advancements in Gemini Robotics’s foundational capabilities to their new Atlas® humanoids. 🦾 Find out more → goo.gle/49paguA
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  • @omgroth
    Oliver Groth
    @omgroth
    Nov 16, 2025
    Excellent take on how to better understand the “jagged frontier” of AI’s economical impact. I agree: if the outcome of a task is easily verifiable, it can (and will) be learned and done by AIs. Very neat analogy, especially when you’re working on RL. 🤓
    @karpathy
    Andrej Karpathy
    @karpathy
    Nov 16, 2025
    Sharing an interesting recent conversation on AI's impact on the economy. AI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm (Software 2.0) because both are
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