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Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Publisher description: Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing LLM roleplay falls short for market research and brand strategy.
TechCrunch | Oct 6, 2026 | Rebecca Bellan
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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. It’s still stuck in the past. ” Ahuja doesn’t think LLMs see the world the way a human does. “LLMs are modeling written language, but humans are made of visual perception, spatial reasoning, social intelligence.
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