LLM Wars

(None of these are real reviews. Our families are very supportive, though.)

LLM Wars is a management sim about the AI boom, played as a story in six acts. Train models, hire researchers, buy compute and ship. Each release is reviewed by benchmarks, developers, the press and a safety board. Then the market, the public and eventually the government react.

TRAIN AND SHIP

• Pick a focus (chat, code, vision, agents, voice, robotics and more) and the data to train on. Find the pairings that work.

• Choose how big to go and how careful to be. Moving fast costs flaws, and flaws become incidents.

• Release closed for money or open for fans. Open weights can't be taken back.

BUILD THE LAB

• Hire, promote and keep your people before rivals poach them. A few legends are hiding in the candidate pool.

• Move from the garage to a loft, an office floor, a campus and a tower.

• Raise money from investors, but every round costs you a share of the company. Sell too much and the board takes over.

• Race three rival labs for first place in the standings.

FACE THE CONSEQUENCES

• Watch whole professions get replaced, one release at a time.

• Lobby Congress, testify, or ask for a global pause. Regulators escalate from audits to injunctions to suspending your licence.

• Seven endings, from Steward to Replaced. Which one you get depends on what you chose, not just how big you got.

AND

• Six acts of original chiptune music that turn darker as the decade goes on.

• Worldwide leaderboards through Game Center.

• Secret founders and jokes hidden for curious lab names.

• Share a card of your run when it's over.

• Keep running your lab after the ending, just for fun (unranked).

No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. Nothing leaves your device.

A work of satire. The people and companies in the news are parodies: not real, and not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone they resemble.