Ayden Soderblom
Robotics & CS at MIT, Founder of Slate
I'm an intern at Threshold Ventures, the founder of Slate, and I build world models in my free time. Before that I built AI for factories at Prodex Labs and spent three years in the Engineering Systems Lab in MIT AeroAstro.
I like to do hard things.
Raised $46k to run the Boston Marathon · Training for an Ironman · Youngest ever to solo hike the Dientes de Navarino trek
Projects
- Verdict — A population simulation engine.
- Terrella — A learned simulator of Earth's magnetosphere, built on 63 years of NASA data.
- CarRacing world model — A DreamerV3-class RSSM built from scratch on personal hardware.
- Dream Loop — Self-improvement inside the dream, every gain gated against reality.
- Rebuilt totaled car — Restored it, then drove it 15,000 miles.
Writing
- Slopbowl — 2026
- Predictive Thermal Digital Twin Model for a Renewably Powered Offshore AUV Servicing Platform — First author · ASME OMAE 2025.
Reading
- Where Is My Flying Car? — J. Storrs Hall
- The WEIRDest People in the World — Joseph Henrich
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
- Genesis — Bernard Beckett