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Funding and backers

Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Backers
1
Juniper
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2025 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
167 public repositories
Hacker News stories
5
best: 4 points
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Overview

Softmax is an AI research company studying alignment through multiplayer environments where humans and coding agents compete and cooperate. The games generate data on how agents behave under incentives rather than in isolated benchmarks. The lab publishes its findings alongside the environments.

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Shared investors1
JuniperVia a fund
18 portfolio companies: FutureSearch, Asymmetric Security, Modaic and 15 more

News

News leetarxiv.substack.com 4 months ago
Approximating Softmax for FPGAs with Taylor Series and Pade Approximants
Coding the 2025 paper "A Quantitative Evaluation of Approximate Softmax Functions for Deep Neural Networks" in Python
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News huggingface 5 months ago
Tripstoph/RRT-Foundation Hugging Face
We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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News gaox.substack.com 6 months ago
You can put a Softmax in front of CrossEntropyLoss. PyTorch won't stop you. Here are 16 other architecture bugs it won't catch.
A walkthrough of the 17-rule design-time linter inside Neurarch: what each rule catches, why it matters, and where static analysis stops being useful for neural networks.
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News NewsMedical 6 months ago
Parallel line analysis and relative potency in SoftMax Pro GxP
Parallel line analysis supports GMP and GLP biological assays by assessing dose-response parallelism before relative potency calculations.
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News softmax.com 7 months ago
Red Button, Blue Button
A viral poll as a lens on coordination, rationality, and social reasoning in frontier models.
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News idlemachines 8 months ago
Softmax, can you really derive the Jacobian? And should you care?
Practice machine learning engineering with hands-on coding challenges. Implement neural network components, backprop, and more - from scratch.
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News Verbose Tethics 1 year ago
Softmax Activation Function
Softmax converts logits into a probability distribution for multi-class classification.
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News leetarxiv.substack.com 1 year ago
The Set of Integers With a Unique Maximum
How much useful information can a softmax layer hold?
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News softmax.com 1 year ago
Research That Inspires Us
A curated selection of papers, essays, and ideas that shaped our thinking about organic alignment and open-ended learning.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
200-500 est. staff