Good Start Labs

Game-based RL environments and benchmarks

Good Start Labs builds game-like and long-horizon environments for training and benchmarking AI models. Co-founder Alex Duffy created the AI Diplomacy benchmark, which pits frontier models against each other in the strategy game Diplomacy.

AI Diplomacy benchmark

Websitegoodstartlabs.com
DomainsGames, Long Horizon
LocationBrooklyn, New York, Toronto
Team size1-10
Funding~$3.6M (reported)
FoundersAlex Duffy, Tyler Marques

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