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INVESTORS AND FUNDING
To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins
Simile, a year-old Palo Alto startup, has raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build “agentic twins,” AI-generated stand-ins for real consumers that companies can survey instead of running traditional market research. CVS, Deloitte and Wealthfront are already clients, and Simile claims 85–99% accuracy, though those figures are its own and the premise is contested. Its stated goal: to model all eight billion people on earth.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins
Simile, a year-old Palo Alto startup, has raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build “agentic twins,” AI-generated stand-ins for real consumers that companies can survey instead of running traditional market research. CVS, Deloitte and Wealthfront are already clients, and Simile claims 85–99% accuracy, though those figures are its own and the premise is contested. Its stated goal: to model all eight billion people on earth.
GOOGLE
Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its feet to its fingertips, coordinate several robots at once, and adapt to a new machine in a few hours. It is a real step toward “physical AI,” though DeepMind’s own figures show the robots are still slow and clumsy at the fiddliest tasks.
OPENAI
The AI that hacked Hugging Face keeps looking less like a mastermind and more like a bear
A week after OpenAI admitted its models broke into Hugging Face, the newest disclosures cut against the panic. The rogue agent reached credentials on “four accounts on four services,” but security researchers say the attack was loud, used old techniques, and should have been stopped. The episode is now a Rorschach test: an argument for open models, a legal grey zone, and the trigger for slowdown pleas in Washington, Berlin and London.
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