I’m hiring a video game designer @simile_ai
The first thing we ever built was a top-down pixel-art town called Smallville. It looked like a game, but the characters were the world's first ai agents living their own lives.
Now we're building simulated worlds full of people who
Simulation and AGI were the twin pillars of advanced civilizations in all my favorite sci-fi. When we created Smallville and agents in 2023, the romantic in me couldn’t resist devoting my career to it -- now with an incredible team @simile_ai.
Fun conversation @sonyatweetybird!
The advanced civilizations of sci-fi legend (Banks, Asimov, etc) have some form of simulation to guide society.
@joon_s_pk is taking a crack at building that simulator with @simile_ai.
As Joon's cofounder @percyliang puts it: great science starts with a great measurement. From
I think it’s pretty clear that simulation is the next frontier for AI.
The most impressive feats of AI to date are when we have a clear environment + reward, whether it be beating Le Sedol at Go, winning an IMO gold medal, or writing entire apps from scratch. In these cases, the
Introducing Simile.
Simulating human behavior is one of the most consequential and technically difficult problems of our time.
We raised $100M from Index, Hanabi, A* BCV, @karpathy@drfeifei@adamdangelo@rauchg@scottbelsky among others.
Our work on generative agents showed that it's possible to accurately simulate human behavior by capturing rich information about real people.
@joon_s_pk spoke with @Nature about how our work builds on this research, and how enterprises can now use simulations to test decisions
Exciting to see @WSJ cover what we’re building at
@simile_ai.
It’s great to see the technology we developed in the lab making real world impact alongside foundational institutions like CVS and Gallup. Nothing like frontier research meeting real PMF!
Simile is increasing decision-making capacity and decreasing research time. We are proud to work with partners like @CVSHealth! 🤝
Projects that took months are now taking hours, and studies are closer resembling human behavior than prior self-reported research - all with the
Happy Valentine’s Day from Team Simile!
Fun fact: In our founders’ 2023 paper, @joon_s_pk and team introduced the concept of generative agents to the world by simulating a town of 25 agents… one of who was planning a Valentine’s Day party.
The agents autonomously spread
Simile CEO @joon_s_pk says their long-term goal is to simulate all 8 billion people on Earth:
He says the real value isn’t just predicting what people will do - but understanding why they do it, referencing a line from the Oracle in The Matrix: ‘You’re not necessarily here to
We’re thrilled to lead @simile_ai's $100M Series A!
By building digital twins of real people grounded in real interviews and real data, we believe they’re creating the foundational infrastructure for decision-making in an AI-native world.
Generative agents. Foundation models. Some of the core ideas shaping modern AI trace back to Joon Sung Park, Percy Liang, and Michael Bernstein.
Now they’re building Simile - digital twins of people as enterprise infrastructure for decision-making.
Proud to lead their $100M
