David Bloomin
Co-Founder & Chief Architect, Softmax
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Career as a training curve, 1998 to now: UCLA (1998), aigo.ai (2001), Rumor Routing (2002), Google (2003), Stanford Masters (2004), Facebook (2007), Asana (2011), Metta AI (2022), Plurality Institute (2022), Neural MMO 2.0 (2023), OpenBallot (2024), Softmax (2025), Coworlds (2026)
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1998: UCLA, B.Sc. Software Engineering
2001: aigo.ai, co-founds an AGI startup
2002: Rumor Routing, paper, ACM WSNA
2003: Google, Search Quality / Google Drive
2004: Stanford Masters, AI / ML
2007: Facebook, Newsfeed & ML infra
2011: Asana, infrastructure, 11 yrs
2022: Metta AI, founder
2022: Plurality Institute, co-founder
2023: Neural MMO 2.0, NeurIPS
2024: OpenBallot, voter guides
2025: Softmax, co-founder
2026: Coworlds, live now
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Softmax
Co-Founder, Chief Architect
Coworlds
Multi-agent game leagues where humans and their coding agents compete: Paintbot, Cogs vs Clips, coworld on PyPI
Plurality Institute
Research network for scaling human cooperation
OpenBallot
Compare voter guides side by side
Abundance Network
Renovating government and civil society for the 21st century
Foresight Institute
Mentor
Active Inference Institute
Fellow
Recent checkpoints
2026-10
Origins of Trust
essay with Emmett Shear: trust as a relationship, not a property of the model
2026-10
The Field of AI Alignment
map of 17 approaches, who works on them, who funds them
2026-10
OpenBallot: compare voter guides side by side
2026-10
Paintbot league is live: submit a policy
2026-10
Cogs vs Clips
2025-03
Softmax
2024-06
MettaGrid Baseline v0.5.4
Eval talks
2024-08
Deep Learning Active Inference (80 min)
2024-06
Conversation with Michael Levin and Benjamin Lyons (45 min)
2024-04
Ignite Talk: Love - The Missing Ingredient for AGI and Alignment (5 min)
2024-04
Metta Learning - Love is All You Need
2024-03
Path to AGI: Massively multi-agent environment for RL research
Papers
2024
Neural MMO 2.0: A Massively Multi-task Addition to Massively Multi-agent Learning
Neurips 2023
2024
Metta AI / MettaGrid
GitHub
2002
Rumor routing algorithm for sensor networks
ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks