About · Team & story

    The data layer for Artificial World Intelligence™.

    Origin Lab acquires, creates, and delivers rights-cleared, multimodal training data for frontier AI - built from video games, 3D worlds, and digital assets, not the open web.

    01/Vision, Mission & Purpose

    Artificial World Intelligence™ will not be built on noise and scraped content. It will be built on worlds.

    The next frontier in AI is not scale alone. It is better data: worlds with rules, provenance, and consequences, where intelligence can learn cause and effect, not just absorb the loudest signals on the internet. We believe the next era of AI requires a new class of training data, licensed, structured, and built from environments that teach models how the world works.

    That is the foundation we are building at Origin Lab.

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    Mission

    Acquire, create, and deliver rights-cleared, AI-enriched multimodal datasets - turning video games, 3D worlds, and digital assets into premium structured data with clear licensing and the richest metadata available.

    • a.Licensed by design.
    • b.Structured for learning.
    • c.Built for what comes next.
    Vision

    Be the data economy for Artificial World Intelligence™ - where the world’s richest digital environments become trusted training infrastructure, rights holders share in the upside, and AI systems learn from better data with less waste.

    • a.Every world, licensed at the source.
    • b.Every frame, audited and attributed.
    • c.Every model, learning from signal not noise.

    02/Team
    The people
    building it.

    Founded in California by operators from AI research, content, video, and video games - and advised by leaders across each.

    Colin Carrier
    CEO / CPO

    4x founder. Former CSO Twitch/Amazon. 20+ years in video, gaming & AI platforms.

    Antoine Gargot
    CTO

    Former Dir. Data Science, Kizen. 10+ years in data science & AI/ML.

    Advisors
    Research & AI

    Oxford and Google Research roots. Drives our proprietary IP across five research tracks.

    Scientific Advisor

    AI/CV researcher from Oxford and Google Research.

    Research Team

    Three Oxford researchers driving proprietary IP across five research tracks.

    Industry advisors

    Operators from major game engines, AAA publishers, and the largest streaming and mobile platforms.

    Publishing & Platform Executive

    25+ years across a top game engine company, major publisher, and leading mobile platform.

    Gaming Marketing Executive

    Currently at a major streaming platform. Former head of gaming at the world’s largest video platform.

    Studio & Publisher Strategist

    Leads a 15-person gaming consultancy. Partner to major platform gaming initiatives.

    AAA Publishing Operations

    Former SVP at a major AAA publisher. Executive Producer on one of gaming’s longest-running MMOs.

    03/Backed by
    The conviction
    behind us.

    Origin Lab is backed by operators, founders, and investors who understand that the next era of AI needs a new class of data infrastructure.

    Frontier AI execs

    Operators who’ve scaled foundation model companies from research to revenue.

    Game studio founders

    Builders who understand the value locked inside interactive worlds.

    Media & IP leaders

    Executives with decades of experience licensing, monetizing, and protecting content.

    Tier-1 funds

    Institutional investors backing the infrastructure layer of the next AI era.

    Build with us.

    We’re hiring across engineering, research, content, and operations. If you want to build the data infrastructure for the next era of AI, we want to hear from you.