Humans& Releases Persimmon, First Large-Scale Model Simulating How People Talk
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-09-11
New lab Humans& (@humansand) announced Persimmon, described as the first large-scale user model designed to realistically simulate how people talk and interact.
The premise: for AI to work, coexist and thrive with humans, it first needs to understand us. Team members promoted the release as early work toward building explicit models of human behavior.
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