We've just raised a $28M seed round to put interactive world-building in everyone's hands. My cofounder Sharon Lee and I converged on the same observation a few months ago: models today are hitting a wall– they lack the practical simulations needed to learn and improve through reinforcement learning. Creators are trapped by complex tools that make building games feel impossibly hard. At Moonlake AI, we're building reasoning models that generate simulations and games—so anyone can create interactive experiences, bring wild ideas to life, and share unforgettable moments with their friends. Moonlake's models and agents don’t just generate— they reason through which representations, tools, and approaches to use for each unique interactive experience. We are a team made up of Stanford CS PhDs, Math Olympiad, ACM ICPC medalists, and researchers with best paper award. We’re hiring for designers, engineers and researchers who are excited about building in the intersection of code generation, (3D) vision and graphics, and RL. – Big thanks to our earliest believers: Mo Islam from Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ), Shaun Johnson and Christopher Manning from AIX Ventures, and Elvin Hao and Artem Barsukov from NVentures (Nvidia’s venture capital arm), Choon Chong Tay, Yazhuo Chloe Chen, alongside exception angles: Ian Goodfellow (Researcher, DeepMind) Steve Chen (Founder, Youtube) Naval Ravikant (Founder, Angelist) Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist, Google/Gemini) Guillermo Rauch (Founder, Vercel) Christian Laforte (ex-CTO of Stability AI) Emery Wells (Founder, Frame.io) Julien Chaumond(Cofounder, HuggingFace) Victor Mustar(Head of Product, HuggingFace) Paul Daugherty (ex-CEO Accenture) William Freiberg (CEO of Crux) Jared Leto (Angel Investor in OpenAI, SSI) Mercedes Bent (Venture Partner, LightSpeed) Vanessa Larco (Venture Partner, NEA) Sudarshan Sridharan (General Partner, SF1) Panos Madamopoulos-Moraris (Founder Exoscaleton) and many more. – Comment “Join Moonlake” if you want your application to be fast-tracked. Comment “Moonlaker” if you’d like to get early access to our product Check out our mission statement video in the comments 👇
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YAY!! Congrats, so excited for you!!
Excited!, congratulations!! Fan-Yun Sun Sharon Lee
Well deserved...congratulations! So wonderful to see your success.
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absolutely legendary team. privilege to support y'all!
This is awesome!! Rockstar team!
Building Moonlake AI | Prev. CS PhD @ Stanford | Code Generation, Embodied AI
3dRead more about us: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/10/01/gaming-worlds-could-be-the-answer-to-ais-data-problem/ Apply to join us: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Moonlake Sign up for early acess to our product: https://moonlakeai.com/