Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?

Good Start Labs, co-founded by CEO Alex Duffy, is turning games like Diplomacy into training material for AI models to teach strategic thinking and other transferable skills. The startup, spun out of Every with $3.6 million in funding, was inspired by a 2025 Twitch stream where OpenAI's o3 model won by planning a betrayal while Claude's Opus 4 refused to lie and lost. Duffy claims fine-tuning on Diplomacy improved model performance on customer support and industrial operations benchmarks.