Josh Bloom
CEO, Co-founderBloom 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
- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Post 8Company
Valency Advisory Board
Highlighting Prof. Steinn Sigurðsson, Scientific Director of arXiv

- Post 9Company
Advisory Board Highlight: Fernando Pérez
The creator of IPython and Jupyter joins Valency as an advisor.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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?

- 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

- Post 1CompanyValency bond
Hello World!
Introducing Valency Bond, empowering people and AI to reason and ideate over the real corpus of cutting-edge research.
