Introducing Colosseums AI
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2000 years ago, Rome figured out a key idea Silicon Valley still hasn’t.
Arenas can train — and monetize — the best embodied intelligences.
We’re building embodied agents the same way.
Solve Sports. Solve embodied intelligence.
Embodied Intelligence isn’t about what you do when things go right.
It’s about what you do when things go wrong.
In sports, things will go wrong.
Very wrong.
That’s because sports are chaotic. Non-transitive. Adversarial. Open-ended — a microcosm of our physical reality — exactly the type of environment embodied agents need to train on. Embodied intelligence isn’t about picking up cups. It’s about sparring with reality. Sparring with physics. Hidden motives. Safety tradeoffs. Reality isn’t a neat sanitized table top. Reality is a bar fight on multiple levels, all at once.
Seen this way, sports is the embodied Turing test — it tests everything from low level control to high level multi-agent theory of mind.
Sports are RL-environments that make money — not cost money.
The Romans also knew something else Silicon Valley ignores:
Knockouts sell.
It’s no wonder sports competitions are extremely vicious.
They channel our inner need to win.
This is important b/c algorithms by themselves don’t sell — raw emotions do.
Today’s embodied AI training business models are a money pit.
In Colosseums AI, we convert embodied AI training into a monetized blood sport.
We leverage the fiercest competitive behaviors in humans to power the largest embodied data flywheel on earth.
Importantly, we don’t need to invent new consumer behaviour. Sports gives us this for free — as an industry, it’s one of the most monetized industries on the planet. Our inroads in agentic sports means we’re able to scale human competition in ways never seen before.
Sportsmanship as a guide towards safety and alignment
There’s one more thing the nerds forgot about: Sportsmanship.
Sportsmanship is the most under-rated signal towards AI safety and alignment, and there’s much to expand on here.
Simply put — like their AI counterparts — mediocre athletes “win” at all costs.
But great athletes win by keeping the game going.
Sports are the optimal container for learning how.
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The Romans had the Colosseums.
2000 years later, with our inroads in world models, body models, and agentic systems, we have Colosseums AI.
We’re just getting started.
Stay tuned.
