Thursday, 20th August 2026
Simulating 6,245 real people on one machine
Last night I went to a simulation build night built around two papers that simulate absurdly large artificial societies: Light Society (a billion LLM agents) and MatrAIx (8.3 billion persona records). Both are impressive. Neither is something you can run at home. So with Yvonne Chen and Jake Schwartz, I …