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“I almost felt a sense of relief.” That was Steinn Sigurdsson’s reaction to hearing about Valency. In his view, only AI can handle AI output at scale. Here’s what sparked it, and why he’s helping build the AI tools science needs: blog.valency.io/posts/adviso...

Fernando Pérez and Joshua Bloom always believed open-source software could transform science. Today it’s real, and Fernando is helping Valency bring AI tools to researchers. Read more on our blog: blog.valency.io/posts/adviso... #AIScience #Berkeley

AI always gives an answer, but only a domain expert can tell if it’s right. In astronomy that risks a flawed paper. In biopharma the stakes are far higher. Bond grounds AI in verifiable research so you can trust the results. Try MCP Bond free: valency.io/bond #AIScience #OpenScience #Berkeley

This Wed and Thu we’re joining @hf.co and the U.S. National Science Foundation in supporting the #OSIHackathon and its global network of researchers, students, and builders reshaping science through AI. Sign up to compete in our prize track for best use of MCP Bond 🏆 👉 luma.com/ku88xh92

Without the right guardrails AI can produce something that looks like science, but isn’t. It builds on shadows instead of the shoulders of giants. Bond keeps AI grounded in verifiable research: fewer hallucinations, results you can trust. Try MCP Bond free: valency.io/bond?utm_sou...

We’re excited to team up with Open Scientific Intelligence (OSI) to sponsor next week’s #OSIHackathon (Oct 21–22), including offering a prize track for the best use of MCP Bond 🏆 The event is free, hybrid, and global. 👉 Sign up today: luma.com/ku88xh92

As scientists ourselves, we recognize how important it is to build your own setup: tools, harnesses, workflows, and collaboration practices. That's why we've built MCP Bond to be LLM agnostic and integrate seamlessly with existing workflows. Try MCP Bond now: valency.io/bond?utm_sou...

GitHub gave open source a place to collaborate. Jupyter creator @fernandoperez.org says science needs its own: a hub where humans and agents interact but humans decide. Join the Hub waitlist: hub.valency.io?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-q4_hub-always-on&utm_content=co_bond

Today marks an important milestone for the academic and scientific communities: OpenAI has released a broad range of new mathematical results. Valency is excited to host the collection on Valency Hub, open for all to read. Read the OpenAI collection: hub.valency.io/collections/...

Swipe to see how Valency Bond keeps your AI current → Most LLMs are working off research that's months old. Valency Bond gives them work published hours ago. Save this for your next review, and get free access at valency.io/bond #AIresearch #LLM #research #science #preprints

Your AI is answering with research from months ago. Valency Bond fixes that. It pulls new papers and preprints from PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, and more, and hands them to your LLM of choice. You get answers grounded in real sources, with citations attached. Get free access valency.io/bond?utm_sou...

It's going to take AI to keep up with AI. Valency is building the tools to get ahead of that and put it to work for the good of everyone. Sign up for Valency Bond for free: app.valency.io/start #AIScience #Berkeley

If AI produces a 100-page proof, who can actually verify it's correct? We may reach a point where AI solves problems only other AIs can fully understand, and part of AI's job will be helping humans make sense of the answers it generates. Sign up for Valency Bond for free: valency.io

The last six months have opened up a whole new world for science. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are all shipping tools for research. Valency's mission is to meet scientists wherever they are, whatever model they're using. Sign up for Valency Bond for free: app.valency.io/start

Meet Fernando Perez (@fernandoperez.org), associate professor of statistics at UC Berkeley's College of Computing, Data Science, and Society and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Read more about him here: blog.valency.io/posts/adviso...

Meet Steinn Sigurðsson, Scientific Director at arxiv.org and our advisor on Valency. He's known Josh for decades and came on board because he sees Valency's timing as perfect for where AI acceleration is taking science next. Read more about him here: blog.valency.io/posts/adviso...

Could Planet 9 already be sitting in our databases, waiting for the right algorithm to find it? AI could help astronomers answer that, along with what's in the atmospheres of other planets and whether there's evidence of life. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start

AI today is fantastic at answering questions we've asked before. The frontier now is whether it can hypothesize beyond what we already know. Not a replacement for scientists, but a co-thinking machine to accelerate work. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers)

The exciting moment for AI as a tool will be when it recedes into the background, still everywhere, just no longer worth mentioning, the way we stopped talking about CCDs and big telescopes. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers)

One problem with AI: it always gives you an answer. And as a scientist, always getting an answer should worry you a little. You still need people to look at the output and say, "I don't believe it," then dig into why. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers)

Why do science at all? Because we want the answers, and we want to help people. That endeavor stays human. AI just lets us push the envelope further and faster than we could have imagined. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #Berkeley

Valency Bond is LLM-agnostic. If it supports Model Context Protocol, it plugs right in, whether that's Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Antigravity, or any open-weight model you're working with. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #Berkeley

What does the AI-accelerated science era actually need? Not just tools for astronomers or STEM, but a home for every researcher trying to engage with AI in an authentic way. That's what Valency is about. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers)

Founding a company wasn't the plan. But engaging with AI as a scientist, something in the ecosystem was clearly missing, and the tools I wanted didn't exist yet. So we built them. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #Berkeley

Science is at an inflection point with AI, but the traditional systems are pushing back. That gap is exactly why Valency exists: a place for AI science to live out in the open. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #Berkeley

Finding needles in the haystack works fine with a few dozen images. Try it with hundreds of thousands and a single person can't keep up. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #UCBerkeley

"Experts don't scale." When you're hunting exploding stars across the sky, one trained student is great, but you can't clone them a hundred times. That bottleneck is where AI comes in. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #UCBerkeley

Modern science started when Galileo took a tool built for spotting ships and pointed it at the stars. Astronomers have been co-opting tools ever since, and AI is next. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #UCBerkeley

Nervous about using AI in your research? The guardrails you learned as a scientist don't go away. Stay skeptical, but watch how fast the tools are getting better. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #UCBerkeley

AI isn't one tool, it's a whole toolkit. A toolkit that will be used by people. Here’s why the tried-and-true methods still matter as the toolbox grows. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #UCBerkeley

AI + Astronomy predictions from Berkeley Professor Josh Bloom. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start #astronomy #Berkeley #AIScience

Valency CEO Josh Bloom on how AI is reshaping astronomy, from planning telescope observations to finding the signal in the noise. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #UCBerkeley

After Erdos, what's the next horizon for AI+Science? Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start

A 20-year perspective on AI acceleration and the axiomatic thinking solving problems right now. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #Erdosproblems

Valency CEO Josh Bloom on AI's next breakthroughs coming in fields beyond math and physics. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #UCBerkeley

Professor Josh Bloom discusses how AI, as it's woven into the fabric of the scientific process, will become a massive accelerant throughout all fields research. Sign up for Valency Bond: app.valency.io/start (free for Academic Researchers) #AIScience #UCBerkeley

Our Valency team is honored to have been selected for DOE's Genesis Mission to Accelerate science and research with AI Agents! youtu.be/aPVIIId8yCo?...

@valency.io is a proud sponsor of Agentic AI Summit 2026 (Aug 1-2) in @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 🐻 hosted by the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) Talks from Ion Stoica, Andrew Ng, Andrej Karpathy! And if curious, check out app.valency.io for early access.

A great start to the week at Valency as we continue to grow our team! Valency is the Home for People-Centered, AI-Accelerated Research - www.valency.io

Welcome to the party, Anthropic! blog.valency.io/posts/the-bu... #aiinscience #coscientist #claudescience

Automate your reading list with Valency Bond! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gGk...

Automate your reading list with Valency Bond! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gGk...

Two Nature papers (FutureHouse & Google’s Co-Scientist) show independent convergence on AI-for-science: specialized agents with tournament selection, iterative critique, & tool access. Scientific institutions and practices need to evolve. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Hallucinations aren't just an academic annoyance, they are a new threat vector." @profjsb.bsky.social arXiv bans authors for a year for hallucinated citations. Fabricated citations prove you didn't read what you signed your name to. Valency Bond can help. blog.valency.io/posts/halluc...

AI Council 2026 opened strong with a uniquely human performance contemplating how technology amplifies our im-AI-gination. Pete Soderling did a live demonstration of human creativity enhanced by AI tools. It was all about what we can create together and the magic that happens at the intersection.

Join our waitlist and ground every answer in real research! app.valency.io

Valency co-founder Josh Bloom, head of science Karthik Ram, and advisor Darren Haas will be at AI Council next week. If you're excited about the future of AI and science, they'd love to talk. We're hiring! #AICouncil #Valency #Research #Science

Grateful to have researchers like Peter Nugent, Senior Scientist and AMCR Division Deputy for Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, putting Valency Bond™ to work. His words, not ours. 🔬 #ValencyBond #AIforScience #ResearchInfrastructure @berkeleylab.lbl.gov