SQREEM bets a "large behavioral model" beats the LLM

AdExchanger · 23 Sep 2026, 15:00 CEST · Score: 10

Behavioral intelligence firm SQREEM appointed Stephen Yap, late of Perion and a nearly two-decade Google veteran, as CEO to push its large behavioral model, which uses state-space modeling rather than machine learning or large language models to auto-generate audience personas. "We're interested in what they do," founder René Raiss said, not what people say or write.

Published: 23 Sep 2026, 15:00 CEST