CapabilityMove faster than the field.
Research breakthroughs, model releases, and deployments pull your lab toward AGI claim pressure.
About Lab to AGI
A hopeful, tense game about building powerful systems in public.
You are the leadership team of a frontier AI lab. Each round, you raise capital, buy scarce compute, hire talent, and choose projects that can make your lab the first to credibly announce AGI.
But acceleration creates a Safety Gap. Push too hard and private incidents become public failures. Invest too carefully and another lab may reach the frontier before you do.
How it plays
Simple turn structure. Difficult strategic choices.
A round is a loop: fund the lab, buy scarce inputs, build your engine, then let incidents and public events test the choices you made.
Roundrepeat until AGI claim- 01
FundCollect Revenue or raise to the next funding stage. - 02
BuyCompete for compute and talent before other labs do. - 03BuildPlay projects that shift Capability, Safety, and deployment.
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IncidentSafety Gap turns pressure into private failures. - 05
EventPublic events change incentives for everyone. - 06
MandateCheck private goals and AGI claim pressure.
What makes it work
The whole game is organized around one question.
How much risk should a lab accept to become the lab that defines the next era?
CapabilitySafety GapRisk lives here
SafetyKeep the system governable.
Evals, oversight, containment, and trust work reduce the chance that speed turns into failure.
Influence shapes the outside game.Standards, procurement, policy leverage, and crisis response change what a lab can get away with.
Incidents make private risk visible.When Capability outruns Safety, failures hit trust, capital, talent, and tempo.
Prototype kit
Built to teach the game from the table outward.
The online rulebook and print kit include setup, worked examples, card anatomy, project cards, incidents, events, mandates, player aids, lab mats, tokens, assembly notes, and balance summary.
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