Olam Labs

Crafting simulations for frontier lab model training

YC Summer 2026Reinforcement LearningGamingData EngineeringAI

About Olam Labs

We push the complexity of simulated environments in order to provide labs with better model training and evaluations for their capability and safety needs. We also run olamarena.com where humans come play multi-agent social games against models and inform our public evaluations on human <> agent interaction.

Founders

  • Om Buddhdev

    Co-Founder

    I want to build rly cool simulations At 11, I was posting YouTube videos about building PCs and hardware projects At 12, I was one of the wealthiest players on Minecraft's largest economy sim server At 13 & 14 I was making Roblox games played millions of times At 15 & 16 I was competing in Fortnite, peaking at top 100 NA. At 17 & 18, I was viral on TikTok with 195k followers. At 19 & 20, I was 8x radiant and peaked top 25 in Valorant At 21, I was a Staff Engineer at AI Dungeon / Latitude

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  • shreshth sharma

    Founder

    currently building simulated envs to create better evals @ olam labs, previously: was doing a cs and business double degree at uwaterloo (dropped out for yc) building reinforcement learning systems and doing data science @ RBC i was briefly top 50 on fifa mobile

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