Moonlake AI Emerges from Stealth with $28M Seed to Support Vibe Coding Interactive Worlds
Moonlake AI, a new artificial intelligence research lab, is emerging from stealth with $28 million in seed funding, debuting its AI models for creating real-time interactive content including simulations and games, enabling anyone to vibe code interactive worlds in minutes.
The seed funding is from AIX Ventures, Threshold, NVIDIA Ventures, and more than a dozen leading AI researchers and founders.
According to the company, Moonlake AI’s reasoning models lower the barrier to creative coding and opens interactive world-building to developers, designers, and fans without requiring programming or domain knowledge.
Moonlake delivers a reasoning model that allows anyone to create immersive environments with interactivity in minutes. The implication is that users and developers simply describe what they want whether it’s games or robotics simulation, and the system compiles it into a working 3D or 2D scene they can interact with right away.
Edits are instant, physics can be changed, and more. Under the hood, the platform uses multi-modal reasoning for spatial layout, tool use over modern engines to build assets and scenes, program synthesis for logic, a simulation layer for agents, and a real-time diffusion model to reskin the world, the vendor said.
“Simulations and games are an extension of our ideas,” said Fan-Yun Sun, co-founder of Moonlake AI. “We want anyone to sketch a feeling or mechanic and be able to simulate it within minutes. That unlocks new workflows and gives AI agents the interactive environment it needs to learn.”
Initial use cases for Moonlake’s platform include:
- User-generated interactive worlds, supporting the growth of micro fandoms
- Interactive world creation for video game developers, studios, and IP holders
- Robotics and embodied-AI simulations for training and evaluation
- Creation of 3D environments for film and animation companies
- Teachers creating immersive learning experiences
Along with the lead VC investors, Moonlake’s round includes more than a dozen industry leaders and unicorn founders such as Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist at Google Research), Steve Chen (Founder of YouTube), Naval Ravikant (Founder of AngelList), Ian Goodfellow (Inventor of GANs), Guillermo Rauch (Founder of Vercel), alongside executives from Hugging Face, Stability AI, Deepmind, and OpenAI.
Moonlake AI is currently in private preview.
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