From Smallville Paper to $2B Simile AI Unicorn
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-08-20
Stanford's Smallville experiment has evolved into Simile AI, now valued at $2 billion. The roadmap traces from simulating social networks (2022) and agent lives (Smallville, 2023) to replicating individual behavior with 83-86% accuracy (2025). With over $300M raised, Simile builds synthetic populations to test products and policies, with the ultimate ambition to simulate all 8 billion people.
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