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MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents
arxiv.orgpaper
Human evaluation of AI systems and digital products is costly, slow, and difficult to scale. Offline evaluations are more scalable but often abstract away human diversity and interactive behavior. We therefore introduce MatrAIx, a population-scale simulated-user evaluation infrastructure for testing AI systems and digital products with heterogeneous users. MatrAIx has three core components: First, Persona 8B contains 8.3 billion persona records represented by 1,290 categorical dimensions. Records are either sampled from a dependency graph that preserves correlated attributes or derived from human-authored profiles. We release a quality-filtered coreset of approximately 1 million personas, comprising 599,847 human-grounded and 400,000 synthetic records. Second, the MatrAIx Playground provides four environments in which diverse users evaluate and interact with digital products: Survey, AI Chatbot, Web, and App. Third, MatrAIx provides 1,010 application tasks spanning more than 25 domainsOrca - Agent Development Environment (ADE)
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Orca is the Agent Development Environment (ADE) for shipping with coding agents. Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor CLI, and every other CLI agent in parallel across isolated worktrees. Get work done dramatically faster than any IDE. New features shipped every day. Free, open source, cross-platform.