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Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior - TechCrunch

·Oct 6, 2026
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Startups that promise to predict how humans will behave are having a moment. Over the past year, Simile raised $200 million at a $2 billion valuation; Aaru raised $88 million at a $1 billion valuation; and Humans&, an AI startup that announced a massive $480 million seed round in January at a $4.48 billion valuation, launched Persimmon to model human behavior.

The status quo for human behavior prediction today relies heavily on large language models (LLMs) that are prompted or fine-tuned to role-play as a target demographic. But two-year-old, San Francisco-based Mirror Particle thinks that approach is fundamentally broken.

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