The Stack
How to Build a Synthetic-User Panel to Pressure-Test Pricing and Copy Before You Ship
Simile just raised $200M at $2B to sell simulated customers. You can build a rough, honest version this afternoon — good enough to kill a bad pricing page before real users ever see it, as long as you calibrate it and never trust it as a verdict.
5 min
The Wire
Simile Raised $200M at $2B for 'Synthetic Users' — Here's Where They Actually Belong in Your Loop
The generative-agents researcher behind 'Smallville' just closed a $200M Series B, five months after a $100M A. Simulated users are now a funded category. The founder question isn't whether to use them — it's which decision you let them near.
3 min
The Stack
distilabel vs Curator vs synthetic-data-kit: Generating Training Data You Can Trust
Three open tools for making synthetic fine-tuning data. The model that generates it stopped being the hard part — the part that decides whether your dataset helps or quietly poisons your model is what happens after.
5 min