Nitrode
ActiveData for reasoning agents in dynamic environments
This company has previously operated under “Roach AI”, “Inception Technologies”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.
About
Nitrode builds high-quality game data to train and evaluate LLMs and agents on spatial and temporal reasoning. Today’s models are trained on static text and images, but struggle to understand how the world evolves over time. We create small, fully specified game environments that generate ground-truth data on state, transitions, and hidden dynamics. This enables AI systems to move beyond simple pattern matching, incorporating memory, causality, and multi-step reasoning to create more reliable agents in dynamic environments.
Founders · 3
Co-founder at Nitrode. Infosci @ Cornell. Previously Data and VC/Corporate @ Wilson Sonsini.
Co-founder at Nitrode. CS & Product Design @ Stanford. Top 500 GeoGuessr globally and builder of unnecessarily ambitious Minecraft cities.
Co-founder at Nitrode. CS @ Cornell. Previously Data Scientist @ Nexon
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