Josh Bloom

Josh Bloom

CEO, Co-founder

Bloom is an academic and serial entrepreneur. He is an astronomy professor at UC Berkeley and applies AI to large-scale scientific data at the frontier of the field. Recognized as a Hertz Fellow and Sloan Foundation Fellow, he has worked across astrophysics, time-domain astronomy, and statistical inference. Before founding Valency, his previous AI-for-customer support company, wise.io, was acquired by GE.

Posts by Josh Bloom

  1. Post 13CompanyValency hub

    Valency Hub: A new home for research

    Accelerating the frontiers of science and math requires a new surface for agents and people alike.

    Josh Bloom 3 min read
  2. Post 14Valency hubIn the news

    Valency hosting AI-accelerated math works from OpenAI

    A new Hub collection brings together the 722 math results OpenAI released today, with the proofs alongside the papers.

    Josh Bloom 2 min read
  3. Post 12In the newsValency bond

    arXiv is tapping the brakes

    A cap of two submissions a month looks like a small policy change. For many of us in science, it's a sea change.

    Josh Bloom 7 min read
  4. Post 8Company

    Valency Advisory Board

    Highlighting Prof. Steinn Sigurðsson, Scientific Director of arXiv

    Josh Bloom 3 min read
  5. Post 9Company

    Advisory Board Highlight: Fernando Pérez

    The creator of IPython and Jupyter joins Valency as an advisor.

    Josh Bloom 2 min read
  6. Post 7Analysis

    Navier-Stokes and the Future AI Acceleration in Science

    A partial resolution of a Millennium Prize problem is a milestone for frontier models in the "thinking" layer of science. But axiomatic reasoning, while foundational, is only a component of the scientific stack that runs up through compute, data, and new instruments.

    Josh Bloom 8 min read
  7. Post 5Analysis

    We will need more (not fewer) scientists

    AI co-scientists are getting good at precisely the labor we trained to do. But the pursuit of knowledge is not a zero-sum game. Instead, as the scientific frontier expands, the vast space to explore explodes faster than any fleet of agents can fill it.

    Josh Bloom 7 min read
  8. Post 4Analysis

    The Invisible Future of AI ✨

    What can the Hubble Space Telescope and CCD sensors teach us about the visibility of AI in products and science?

    Josh Bloom 7 min read
  9. Post 3Valency bondIn the news

    The Burgeoning Ecosystem for AI-Accelerated Science

    Anthropic's latest release for science is the newest entrant into a growing product space

    Josh Bloom 3 min read
  10. Post 2In the news

    Hallucinations as a new(ish) threat model for academics

    arxiv clamps down

    Josh Bloom 3 min read
  11. Post 1CompanyValency bond

    Hello World!

    Introducing Valency Bond, empowering people and AI to reason and ideate over the real corpus of cutting-edge research.

    Josh Bloom 4 min read