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Executive
Adrian Bolton
Google DeepMindSenior Director, Strategy and Special Projects
Bolton helped create DeepMind Lab, a 3D testing ground where AI agents learn to navigate and solve tasks.[1] His work connects AI research with video games, including contributions to SIMA, an agent that follows language instructions across virtual worlds[2], and partnerships with game developers.[3]
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2022-presentSenior Director, Strategy and Special Projects
Google DeepMind2022-presentPreviously
Elixir Studios2000-2005Chief Operating Officer and Executive Producer
Senior Product Manager -> Interim Chief of Staff2014-2022
COO2010-2014
Elixir Studios2000-2005Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Selected contributions
Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
With David Silver, Julian Schrittwieser, Karén Simonyan, Ioannis Antonoglou, Aja Huang, Arthur Guez, Thomas Hubert and others ·AlphaGo Zero learned Go through self-play without examples of human games.
References
- DeepMind Lab — original paperarxiv.org
Coauthorship and platform for training/testing agents in partially observed 3D environments.
- Google DeepMind — A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environmentsdeepmind.google
Official SIMA explanation and explicit Bolton paper-author credit.
- Google DeepMind — From Atari to EVE Onlinedeepmind.google
August 2026 Bolton-coauthored account of collaborations with game studios.
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