# AGI Tycoon: AI Lab Sim — Build an AI startup empire

> Build an AI startup empire (iPhone/iPad app by Matthis Damm.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/agi-tycoon-ai-lab-sim/id6765854956 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Matthis Damm](https://appshunter.io/developer/1871453475)
- Category: Games, Simulation, Strategy
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-29
- Data updated: 2026-10-14

## What is AGI Tycoon?

You have two H100s, a cofounder, and a bank balance you keep refreshing. Four frontier labs are already ahead of you. Build the AI lab that reaches AGI first — without going broke, burning out, or triggering the incident that ends everything.

AGI Tycoon is a deep, fast-paced strategy simulation about running an AI startup at the frontier.

EVERY CYCLE COUNTS
• Split scarce compute between training new models, serving customers, and research
• Spend limited focus on decisive moves: training runs, hiring, fundraising, lobbying, poaching
• Advance the cycle and watch the world respond

OUTRUN FOUR RIVAL LABS
• OmniLabs, Mirror Research, BlackPole, and Tessera ship on their own schedule, poach your engineers, and flood the market
• Climb the capability leaderboard from #5 to #1
• Choose your difficulty and the country you fly on the leaderboard when you found the lab

MANAGE THE RISK CURVE
• Every ship and training run builds safety risk — incidents fire when you push too hard
• Regulators in four jurisdictions watch your every move; hostile ones can nationalize your lab
• Balance hype, morale, burnout, and burn rate while the race accelerates

BUILD AN EMPIRE
• Raise rounds and draw on a credit line to stay solvent
• Ship models via API or open weights, tune pricing, and grow adoption
• Post to Y, the fictional in-game feed — pick an angle, the game writes the post, and your ships, raises, and stumbles make headlines
• Pass $25M in the bank and heavy infrastructure unlocks: your own datacenter, a nuclear power deal, even a chip fab

Every run ends somewhere: bankruptcy, acquisition, IPO, nationalization — or AGI itself. How far will your lab get?

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series Boost | $1.99 | one-time |
| Superhuman Focus | $2.99 | one-time |
| Mega Round | $4.99 | one-time |
| Seed Injection | $0.99 | one-time |


## Is AGI Tycoon safe?

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## Is AGI Tycoon legit?

AGI Tycoon: AI Lab Sim has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for AGI Tycoon is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0.0 — 2026-08-29

No release notes.

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