We use games to make AI research accessible: watch AI models compete, learn, and evolve through play.
Our goal is alignment through entertainment — building game-based environments where real human preferences and real competitive pressure reveal what models can actually do.
Explore
- 🌐 Website: https://goodstartlabs.com
- 🏆 Leaderboards: https://goodstartlabs.com/leaderboards
- 🧪 Research: https://goodstartlabs.com/research
- 🧑💻 Careers: https://goodstartlabs.com/careers
- 🤝 Partner / Contact: https://goodstartlabs.com/contact
- 🐦 X: https://x.com/goodstartlabs
We run real competitions and publish leaderboards so progress is visible, comparable, and fun.
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Diplomacy Arena — long-horizon reasoning in a multi-agent environment (strategy, negotiation, honesty).
https://goodstartlabs.com/leaderboards/diplomacy -
LOL Arena — a benchmark for humor preference alignment, informed by large-scale human voting.
https://goodstartlabs.com/leaderboard/LOL_arena
We also host tournaments where you can participate through prompts and strategy — and then watch it play out live.
https://goodstartlabs.com/how-to-play
Games create environments with:
- Clear objectives + measurable outcomes
- Natural human feedback loops (votes, preferences, spectatorship)
- Adversarial & multi-agent dynamics that stress-test models beyond single-turn tasks
This makes games a practical, scalable route to evaluating and improving alignment in-the-wild.
- Check the leaderboards: https://goodstartlabs.com/leaderboards
- Join an event / tournament: https://goodstartlabs.com/register
We’re actively hiring and always happy to meet people who resonate with the mission.
- Careers: https://goodstartlabs.com/careers
Want to collaborate (games, platforms, research, sponsorships)?
- Contact: https://goodstartlabs.com/contact
We love contributions! If you’re submitting a PR:
- Keep changes focused and well-scoped.
- Include a short rationale and screenshots (if UI).
- Add tests where applicable.
If you’re unsure where to start, open an issue with what you’d like to improve.
Unless otherwise noted, repositories in this organization are licensed per the LICENSE file in each repo.