--- title: Simular: AI agent startup founded by ex-Google DeepMinder description: Former Google DeepMind engineer Ang Li co-founded Simular, an AI agent startup that claims other companies are building agents incorrectly. While current AI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/simular-ai-agent-startup-founded-by-ex-google-deepminder-zcd4ykfop twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Simular: AI agent startup founded by ex-Google DeepMinder | daily.dev og:description: Former Google DeepMind engineer Ang Li co-founded Simular, an AI agent startup that claims other companies are building agents incorrectly. While current AI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/simular-ai-agent-startup-founded-by-ex-google-deepminder-zcd4ykfop og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZcD4ykfOP.png og:image:alt: Simular: AI agent startup founded by ex-Google DeepMinder og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Simular: AI agent startup founded by ex-Google DeepMinder **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Former Google DeepMind engineer Ang Li co-founded Simular, an AI agent startup that claims other companies are building agents incorrectly. While current AI agents succeed at office tasks only 30-45% of the time compared to humans' 72%, Simular's S2 framework combines LLM exploration with symbolic code execution for more reliable automation. The company targets API-deficient industries like insurance and healthcare with their $500/month macOS agent, focusing on continual learning as the path to AGI rather than pure LLM-based approaches. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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