Can skills learned in games transfer to real-world work?

Good Start Labs trained a 30B model on the railroad game 1830 and found that training design determines skill transfer. A multi-turn terminal agent version improved at financial research tasks—querying databases, writing Excel formulas, reasoning on the fly—while single-turn training did not. The company spun out of Every last October with $3.6M in funding, betting on verifiable game environments for RL-based skill teaching.