How to play

• Watch your city grow - every purchase appears as a 3D vox building: data huts and labeling offices in the western Data District, glowing GPU servers and datacenter halls in the east, engineers and labs on the campus, and each trained model raises a landmark on the central Model Avenue, capped by the golden AGI spire. Prestige stars become statues in Star Plaza.
• Gather data by hand, then automate it: scrapers, labeling teams, synthetic data engines.
• Buy compute - GPU racks, datacenter halls, solar farms. Models need both data AND compute.
• Climb the model ladder in order: Linear Regression → Decision Tree → Neural Network → CNN → Transformer → LLM → AI Agent → AGI. Each deployment earns revenue per second.
• Hire ML engineers (+5% everything, each) and research labs (Research points gate the upper ladder).
• Watch the market - GPU shortages, viral demos, data leaks, grants and conference insights strike at random.
• Prestige: after your first LLM, you can OPEN-SOURCE the lab - reset everything for permanent ⭐ community stars (+10% production each). The fastest road to AGI runs through giving your work away.
• Progress saves automatically and accrues (at half speed) while you're gone - idle compute is wasted compute.

What it teaches

The model ladder mirrors AI history: classical statistics → trees → neural networks → vision → attention → LLMs → agents. The economy mirrors the industry: data and compute are complements, talent multiplies everything, research looks slow until it isn't, and open source compounds like interest. Every unlock and event carries a real lesson from the field.

Credits

Model Tycoon is an educational game by Adrian Dunkley - The AI Boss. Part of the AI Boss Arcade with AIMon, AI Empire and Promptle.