Simile's $2B bet on simulating 8B people: Stanford's Smallville evolves
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-08-16
TheTuringPost published an article exploring the potential of AI to simulate human behavior, centering on Simile AI's $2B bet. It traces back to Stanford's 2023 'Generative Agents' (Smallville) paper, where 25 AI characters lived in a pixelated town. The article analyzes the transition from academic research to a commercial platform and the meaning of the '85% claim'.
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