Sholto Douglas is an AI researcher and tech lead who works on scaling reinforcement learning at Anthropic. Sholto Douglas's Twitter Score is 187 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #2,591 (top 1%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Sholto Douglas previously worked at Google DeepMind, where he was listed as a core contributor to the Gemini technical report, a paper covering a family of multimodal models. His research interests span reinforcement learning, hierarchical reinforcement learning, energy models, imitation learning, and robot learning, documented across his personal research blog and published work.
Sholto Douglas has published 1,264 posts on the platform and has 57,593 followers as of September 2026. He has been mentioned by 42 accounts, with 73 total mentions.
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