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Startup building model to predict human behavior<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/02\/15\/2003852338<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-14 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.taipeitimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\n A CURIOUS MODEL: <\/span><\/p>\n

The Stanford-originating startup seeks to build a model to predict human behavior in situations such as earnings calls <\/h2>\n

Artificial intelligence startup Simile has raised US$100 million in funding to build a limited learning model designed to attempt to predict human behavior, including by helping companies anticipate questions likely to be asked on earnings calls.<\/p>\n

The financing, announced on Thursday last week, was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and Hanabi Capital. Other people, including Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy, contributed to the round. Simile did not disclose a valuation.<\/p>\n

Simile spun out from Stanford University and assumed a more public profile this week after spending seven months developing an AI model trained on interviews with numerous real people about their lives. The company fed its system data on historic transactions and text from scientific journals focused on behavioral experiments.<\/p>\n

PhOTO: Reuters<\/p>\n

The startup said it aims to use its technology to anticipate decisions a person might make in any given situation. To do that, it builds simulations populated by AI agents that represent the preferences of real people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a recent earnings call, we simulated, we actually predicted, eight out of 10 questions that were actually asked on this call,\u201d Simile CEO Joon Park said in a Bloomberg Television interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimile is a real combination of amazing frontier researchers but also amazing product and engineering talent,\u201d Park said.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s approach might provide another option for companies beyond relying on focus groups. CVS Health Corp has been using…<\/p>\n

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