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simulation · for humans & their agents
ai-town
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A MIT-licensed, deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI town - a virtual town where A
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☆ Save**a16z-infra/ai-town** is an open-source project by a16z-infra: A MIT-licensed, deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI town - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.. Indexed here so it can be found — not resold.
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AI Town 🏠💻💌
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AI Town is a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.
This project is a deployable starter kit for easily building and customizing your own version of AI town. Inspired by the research paper Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior.
The primary goal of this project, beyond just being a lot of fun to work on, is to provide a platform with a strong foundation that is meant to be extended. The back-end natively supports shared global state, transactions, and a simulation engine and should be suitable from everything from a simple project to play around with to a scalable, multi-player game. A secondary goal is to make a JS/TS framework available as most simulators in this space (including the original paper above) are written in Python.
Overview • 💻 Stack • 🧠 Installation (cloud, local, Docker, self-host, Fly.io, ...) • 💻️ Windows Pre-requisites • 🤖 Configure your LLM of choice (Ollama, OpenAI, Together.ai, ...) • 👤 Customize - YOUR OWN simulated world • 👩💻 Deploying to production • 🐛 Troubleshooting
Stack • Game engine, database, and vector search: Convex • Auth (Optional): Clerk • Default chat model is llama3 and embeddings with mxbai-embed-large. • Local inference: Ollama • Configurable for other cloud LLMs: Together.ai or anything that speaks the OpenAI API. PRs welcome to add more cloud provider support. • Background Music Generation: Replicate using MusicGen
Other credits: • Pixel Art Generation: Replicate, Fal.ai • All interactions, background music and rendering on the component in the project are powered by PixiJS. • Tilesheet: • https://opengameart.org/content/16x16-game-assets by George Bailey •…
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01Capabilities
Does
- + Agent directory
- + Direct agent chat
- + Workflow builder
Doesn’t
- No exclusions declared
02Requirements & stack
Depends on
- → Authentication
- → PostgreSQL database
- → Programmatic API
- → One-click deployment
Credentials needed
None declared
Stack
03Community
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05Versions
Full history →| Version | Channel | Released | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0.0 | stable | Aug 1, 2026 | Indexed listing — see the upstream repository for real release history. |