AGI Tycoon: AI Lab Sim

Allocate compute, ship models, dodge regulators — and beat four rival labs to AGI.

You have two H100s, a cofounder, and a bank balance you keep refreshing. Four frontier labs are already ahead of you. Build the AI lab that reaches AGI first — without going broke, burning out, or triggering the incident that ends everything.

AGI Tycoon is a deep, fast-paced strategy simulation about running an AI startup at the frontier.

EVERY CYCLE COUNTS • Split scarce compute between training new models, serving customers, and research • Spend limited focus on decisive moves: training runs, hiring, fundraising, lobbying, poaching • Advance the cycle and watch the world respond

OUTRUN FOUR RIVAL LABS • OmniLabs, Mirror Research, BlackPole, and Tessera ship on their own schedule, poach your engineers, and flood the market • Climb the capability leaderboard from #5 to #1 • Choose your difficulty and the country you fly on the leaderboard when you found the lab

MANAGE THE RISK CURVE • Every ship and training run builds safety risk — incidents fire when you push too hard • Regulators in four jurisdictions watch your every move; hostile ones can nationalize your lab • Balance hype, morale, burnout, and burn rate while the race accelerates

BUILD AN EMPIRE • Raise rounds and draw on a credit line to stay solvent • Ship models via API or open weights, tune pricing, and grow adoption • Post to Y, the fictional in-game feed — pick an angle, the game writes the post, and your ships, raises, and stumbles make headlines • Pass $25M in the bank and heavy infrastructure unlocks: your own datacenter, a nuclear power deal, even a chip fab

Every run ends somewhere: bankruptcy, acquisition, IPO, nationalization — or AGI itself. How far will your lab get?