Lab Tycoon

You're the founder of a scrappy AI lab: perpetually compute-starved, wildly over-hyped, one demo away from either a mega-round or a very public catastrophe.

Train models

Pick a model type, a dataset of questionable provenance, and how much you care about alignment. Watch it grow from glorious nonsense into something that almost works. Ship it and read the reviews.

Split the compute

One pool of compute, two hungry mouths: training the next model versus serving the one that pays the bills. You can't max both. That tension is the whole game.

Climb, raise, exit

Beat rival labs up the leaderboard, raise rounds at increasingly absurd valuations, then exit — IPO, acquisition, or something stranger — and start again with what you learned.