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Preference Model

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Preference Model

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Preference Model is a superintelligence data research company, building RL environments for training capable, better-aligned superintelligences. observed

fresh · evidence 9d ago 11 sources no confidence data
74.3/100
Venture signal
scored above 83% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
no round
2026-10-07
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
4 ▼-1
eng openings
Commercial
sales-led
homepage

Engineering openings 5 → 4 over 2d

Counted from the company's own job board — each point a dated observation.

10-08 510-10 4

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

api.preferencemodel.com product surface 10-08 app.preferencemodel.com product surface 10-08

Traction

Current round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_recency (20% of the score).

↓ Scored on 1 of 4 components — funding_magnitude, adoption, developer had no computable metric.

9 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

Evaluation

How it's evaluated Four independent layers ▾

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Platform score derived
74/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
11/100
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VIX signals 2 hard signals across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Team size (reported)
not provided
Open eng roles
4 observed
Total open roles
4 observed
Market & funding stage 1 of 3 signals present ▾
Funding stage
not provided
Lifecycle stage
not provided
Latest round stage
unknown observed
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-10-07 unknown · Led by Andreessen Horowitz

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 74.3/100 for preference-model, composed from 1 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.76 for 20% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.978 0.1956

Evidence this score rests on

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
Undisclosed unknown
announced 2026-10-07 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-10-07
Money moved on or after
2026-10-07
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-10-07 by its own source.

Counterparty exposure shared-investor contagion

Companies coupled to this one by a shared investor — if a common backer pulls back or a fund hits trouble, the shock propagates across the set. More shared investors = tighter coupling.

ElevenLabs 1 shared andreessen-horo… Etched 1 shared andreessen-horo… Inferact 1 shared andreessen-horo… Neo 1 shared andreessen-horo… Probably 1 shared andreessen-horo… Replit 1 shared andreessen-horo… TypeSafe AI 1 shared andreessen-horo…

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.01

Gray-market attention, not quality. 2+ HN mentions (peak 95 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. ▲ 95 How RLHF Preference Model Tuning Works (and How Things May Go Wrong) 2023-08-09 ↗

Raw observations 104 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
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common_name Preference Model observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.90
common_name Preference Model observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 184 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 superseded 0.20
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community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12832027", "title": "Ask HN: At 91, My Grandfather's Only Regret Is Never Skateboarding. Best VR Rig?", "points": 184, "created_at": "2016-10-30"} observed artifact ↗ 2016-10-30 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37061694", "title": "How RLHF Preference Model Tuning Works (and How Things May Go Wrong)", "points": 95, "created_at": "2023-08-09"} observed artifact ↗ 2023-08-09 normalized 0.20
description Reinforcement-learning environments for AI research and ML engineering; open-sourced Karotte, hardened over 1M+ evaluation runs. Round size not disclosed. observed curated 2026-10-08 normalized 0.80
description Preference Model is a superintelligence data research company, building RL environments for training capable, better-aligned superintelligences. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.70
domain preferencemodel.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.95
funding.round.announced_on 2026-10-07 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-07 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-07 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-preference-model/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-07 normalized 0.90
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