{"id":187395,"date":"2026-02-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/startup-building-model-to-predict-human-behavior\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:20:12","slug":"startup-building-model-to-predict-human-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/startup-building-model-to-predict-human-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup building model to predict human behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/02\/15\/2003852338\">Startup building model to predict human behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/02\/15\/2003852338\">https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/02\/15\/2003852338<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-14 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.taipeitimes.com\">www.taipeitimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a summary of the article using an unordered list with 6 key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Simile, a Stanford-originating startup, has secured $100 million in funding with the aim of developing an artificial intelligence model to predict human behavior.<br \/>\n&#8211; The lead investors in this funding round are Index Ventures, with additional participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Hanabi Capital, and notable individuals including Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy.<br \/>\n&#8211; The company has created an AI model trained on extensive data, including interviews, historic transactions, and scientific behavioral research, to simulate human decision-making in various contexts.<br \/>\n&#8211; Simile claims to have successfully predicted questions likely to be asked during earnings calls, anticipating eight out of ten questions in one recent case.<br \/>\n&#8211; The firm positions its model as an alternative to focus groups, providing companies like CVS Health Corp with insights on customer preferences and helping them make informed inventory decisions.<br \/>\n&#8211; Founded by members connected to Stanford, including Michael Bernstein who was a co-author of the influential ImageNet project, the company aims to offer businesses a new way to predict market behaviors and corporate communication receptions.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup building model to predict human behavior https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/02\/15\/2003852338 Publish Date: 2026-02-14 11:00:00 Source Domain: www.taipeitimes.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.taipeitimes.com\/images\/2026\/02\/15\/P05-260215-311.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-187395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187397,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187395\/revisions\/187397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}