Park: Stanford simulation first explicitly architected agent memory, planning, reflection
Joon Sung Park · The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park · Jul 31, 2026 · at 3:45
Joon Sung Park (Co-founder & CEO of Simile) recounts his foundational Stanford research creating generative agents prior to founding Simile.
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“And then was paired with memory planning and reflection. Really the first times that those concepts Came out to be an explicit part of the architecture in, quote unquote, agentic workflows.”
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