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AI Arena teaches AI to players by training and battling AI fighters

ArenaX Lab‘s mission is to educate people about artificial intelligence and inspire them to become AI developers. It has created an AI fighting game dubbed AI Arena to bring that goal to life.

The company believes humans haven’t adapted to the presence of AI yet, so it created a game where humans can train AI characters and then set them loose in a Smash Bros. style fighting game. ArenaX Labs aims to educate players and reward their efforts with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The developers hope to expand the potential audience to both an education angle and NFT enthusiasts.

The company was founded to make indie games in 2018 by three cofounders: Brandon Da Silva, Dylan Pereira, and Wei Xie.

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After they discovered NFTs in 2020, they recognized these were essentially “containers” that could house any digital item with value. This sparked the idea of wrapping AI in NFTs, which began their journey in developing AI Arena. They felt the game could be fun, educate players, and grow new AI talent.

ArenaX Labs was incorporated in 2021 with a $5 million seed funding round led by Paradigm with participation from Framework. Today, the company has grown to a team of 20 people from around the world.

AI Arena is a game built on human and AI collaboration. The company said it’s Frankenstein mix between Super Smash Bros. and Mario Maker, but with “intelligent” characters.

How it works

AI Arena pits human trained AI against each other in a platform fighter.

In AI Arena, gamers can purchase, train and battle AI-enabled NFTs in a PvP platform fighting game. The objective is to knock your opponent off of a platform.