EMMETT SHEAR IS BACK WITH A NEW COMPANY AND A LOT OF ALIGNMENT

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Emmett Shear, Adam Goldstein, and David Bloomin have a new 10-person start-up called Softmax. Softmax is part research lab and part aspiring money maker. It aims to figure out how to fuse the goals of humans and AI in a novel way. It is unknown yet what form the technology Softmax hopes to develop will take in terms of an actual product. The startup has raised an undisclosed amount from Andreessen Horowitz, Lionheart Ventures, and Plural.