a16z-infra/ai-town

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

AI Town is a deployable starter kit for building a virtual town where AI characters live, chat, and socialize, inspired by the Generative Agents research paper. It is built on Convex with vector search, supports configurable LLMs (Ollama, OpenAI, Together.ai), and renders the world with PixiJS.

Use cases

• build a virtual town with AI characters
• create a generative agents simulation
• customize an AI NPC social world
• run a multiplayer AI character game
• experiment with LLM-driven agents in a shared world
• self-host an AI simulation with local models

When to choose

• you want a ready-to-deploy, customizable AI agent simulation in TypeScript
• you want to experiment with generative agents using local or cloud LLMs
• you need a scalable multiplayer simulation foundation on Convex

When to avoid

• you need a production game engine or polished commercial game
• you want a Python-based agent research framework
• you need fine-grained control over the simulation engine internals

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agent-framework llm-inference rag chatbot game-engine vector-database web-framework artificial-intelligence large-language-models simulation web-development self-hosted cloud generative-agents virtual-town convex ollama pixijs starter-kit multiplayer-simulation pixel-art ai-agents game-development typescript nodejs web-server docker

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