Strange Lab · 4,057 inventions · 3.3M BCE to 2025

Ask a world model what happens when history changes.

Choose a year, change history, and see a 25-year technology forecast.

Counterfactual lab

Choose a year. Change history. See the forecast.

Pick a point in time, ask what changed, and compare the next 25 years with the unchanged history. Start with a prompt or write your own.

Advanced: edit the model’s state yourself

Change the 16-event context or add an invention, then run the same local model in your browser.

Evidence

Where recorded inventions came from.

Across 4,057 recorded inventions, the center of invention moves across regions over time. The chart is descriptive; it is not the forecast.

From 2025

What does the model expect by 2050?

Model and data

This page uses the released run bundle and scenario set. The advanced editor loads the checkpoint locally; the guided prompts use the scenario endpoint to match your question to a pre-run change.

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